Bounding box doesnt seem to work on smaller sizes

[Scifo]

I'm performing a collision detection under ray, but when I set the bounding box
size to under 10 so that it's in proportion to the size of my car, it doesn't
register anything.

I've tried increasing the size of my project further externally in 3DS max,
but this has slowed down the speed of the car considerably. When I increase the
speed of the car to combat this it then starts going through walls again.

I have tried increasin the period parameter for detecting collisions from 10
to 1, but this crashes my system.

Also. is it unusual for director to crash as often as it does on me. The code
I'm using shouldn't be too unsafe and the objects I'm importing from max files,
even though they're fairly badly made I wouldn't call them particularly complex
yet. But it feels like Director has given up on giving me warnings when
something is about to go wrong and just crashes the program instead. It's
fairly infuriating but I don't know for sure if it's the program at fault or me
continually making the same big mistake over and over again.

[Dean Utian]

Hi Scifo,

I saw your post but was waiting to see if anyone else had come across such an
issue. I haven't had modelUnderRay not register so your issue does sound strange.
The idea of this technique is that you're sending out a line and all models that
cross that line will be put into a list. You detect collision by looking at the
distance from the ray origin to the model. So, when you say, nothing registers when
your bounding box 'size is under 10', are you not getting anything appearing on the
collision list?

Director shouldn't be crashing on you on a regular basis, so not sure what's
happening thare. If you would like to contact me offlist, and send me your files,
I'll have a look at them and see if I can find what's going wrong. My email is
[email]d.utian@unsw.edu.au[/email].

regards
Dean

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