Or, how I tried to create a dynamic character controller for Bullet, but eventually (almost?) gave up.
Motivations
I like spending some time using the Bullet physics library, I already wrote some articles about my experiments with it. This time, I wanted to create a custom character controller.
Bullet alread provides a (kinematic) character controller, but in general it is not regarded as a good one. I also tried to study a bit its code, but, in my opinion, it adds many complications without reason, and even something like managing in the correct way the velocity is a big problem with it. Indeed, Erwin Coumans himself (the main Bullet developer) said that btKinematicCharacterController
is not supported anymore.
Therefore I decided to write my own one.
There are two kinds of character controller: kinematic ones and dynamic ones.
The former use the Physics engine, if any, just for collisions, and compute all the movements by themselves. This was the only way at the beginning of the video games, since there was not any Physics engine at all, but only some code for specific purposes. … [Leggi il resto]