Re: Question about development of prototyping tools.

I'm sorry that this is sightly offtopic, but given that banjo kazooie was one of the games that inspired me the most to be a game programmer when I was young, I hope you don't mind if I ask a simple question.. (Of course if you can answer it)

How is collision detection done in bk? I noticed there is a stage whith a giant whale floating in a sewer. The whale is fully animated, wiggles its tail and banjo can still walk over it and moves with the whale. Can it be that in games from that time, when a character was over a floor it would disable phisics and just move over the manifold as long as the surface normal allowed?

I am really amazed, since recently I implemented that kind of interaction on a physics engine for skinned geometry, obtaining back linear and angular velocity.. And was thinking "how did they do this  on a n64...". I'm sure there's so many neat tricks like that that will be lost to time given how greater processing power allows more and more general purpose algorithms..


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