[CsMain] Kinematic Collision Detection question

Hello,

I'm at one of those places where I'm theorizing my next game.  I could either finish up CrystalFighter, or I could do an Xwing vs TieFighter style game with cheap graphics, but cool building up a squadron over time.  I'm just theorizing here, and not committing to anything.

So when I did collision detection with CrystalFighter, I had a mesh and did X collision detections where X = (distance travelled) / (size of Mesh).  This is good for moving short distances, but a spaceship could move super fast.  So what is the proper way to say check if a spaceship hit into asteroids or other ships?  I was thinking you could turn the spaceship into a large mesh in the shape of its pathway, then check once for collisions.  If there is a collision, determine where it happened, otherwise return false for the function.

Is that the right way to do that?  Or is there a better way to do collision detection for fast moving objects?  

I'm just theorizing what my next project could be.

,Jim

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