Bounding box and rotating

[Mr_Ridd]

Hey, if I have an object, say a mesh of a car for example and I rotate it, the bounding box doesn't rotate with it, it only increases or decreases in size. If I am, for instance, taking a corner, it means my car will be at an angle. If I had to do a collison test with my car and another car behind me it would result true because the bounding box hasn't rotated with the car.

Perhaps this image will clear things up:



Is there a way to overcome this?

Thanks

[haffax]

This is, because the bounding box is axis aligned. It is definitly not appropriate for fine grained collision detection. The best option is probably to use a specialized engine for it, like ODE or OPCODE. Personally I'd recommend OgreODE in the ogreaddons. It is easy to use and has many useful examples delivered with it. Even a car demo.