Any good tutorials on basic 3d collision?

Ultimate Game Programming
rate me please

more suited to game programming i think [smile]

Okay, the move made sense.

But anyway, UGP seems to only gives out the source code with a small explanation inside the actual source code.

One problem is that there are many different ways to do collision detection in 3D. Even for 'basic' collision detection, there are quite a few ways to go about it. Can you tell us anything about your application, i.e. what kinds of objects, how many, what sort of environment, what sort of feedback you need from the collision system, etc.? With that information, it would be easier to make specific suggestions.

Meanwhile, you might check out the articles section here on gamedev, if you haven't already.

I just want to do basic collisions with cubes. I will have a function that checks if a cube is colliding with another cube or the player. The function will be called upon each movement of an object, if it returns true and that there would be a collision, the object does not move that way.

It will be used for an extremely basic FPS (using stick figure images) in OpenGL.

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I just want to do basic collisions with cubes. I will have a function that checks if a cube is colliding with another cube or the player. The function will be called upon each movement of an object, if it returns true and that there would be a collision, the object does not move that way.

Well, you're in luck then because the type of collision detection you describe is pretty easy. The following function tells you whether two axis-aligned bounding boxes are intersecting:


If you're not sure about the terms used, just google for 'AABB intersection', or check out some of the articles in the 'collision detection' section here on gamedev.