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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Personally I'd go for expressing the flipper as a distance function to the segment between its two round extremities. Because you must bare in mind that the flipper might very well hit the ball on its way down, in which case it's easier to do this way than having to consider the upper and lower edge of the flipper + the round edge for the collision detection. Of course it'd help to only compute the collision if the ball is within the disc where the flipper can move. But the ball is also a fast moving object, so you should actually compute the intersection of the segment formed by its current and previous position with the cone formed by the flipper at its previous and current position. With that you should be able to estimate the moment and location of the impact. IIRC Ugo Helias had something similar for a snooker simulation or boucing balls simulation. [url=http://www.p01.org/][img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_dk.gif[/img][/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2185]poi[/url] on 01-20-2009 02:56)[/small] Loading...
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