Re: When is a neighbor a neighbor ?

Henrik Nørgaard Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.breve
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6. nov 2003, at 15:08, jon klein wrote:

> Neighbor checking uses the distance from the center-point of an object 
> to determine whether it is a neighbor or not.  Because of this, the 
> birds are often close to the floor plane, but not close enough to the 
> center-point of the floor to be considered neighbors.
The center-point of an object you ?  I caught a couple of birds, but I 
never got close enough to the center, I guess.  Now that I know what to 
look for I see it clearly.

> Neighbor checking is usually just used as a quick way to get a first 
> list of nearby objects.  You'll generally have to then iterate through 
> the neighbor list to further determine whether two objects should 
> interact or not.
Yeah, but I was trying to utilize the simple "show-neighbor-lines".  It 
is OK, I'll just adopt the method used in Swarm and use the "add-line 
to" method instead.


Henrik.


If you're falling off a cliff, you might as well try to fly.  After 
all, you don't have anything to lose.

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