This week we begin working on the physics system. The physics system should be a simple system that allows for changing the position of the objects and detecting a collision. I have implemented rigid body to utilize velocity and acceleration. As for collision, in order to optimize the collision system, we have decided to implement standard colliders for objects that can have multiple instances. For example, all enemy objects will point to a standard capsule collider with data on the size of the collider and apply their own unique information in order to “move” the collider for calculation.
We have three basic colliders: sphere, capsule, and box. Since most of our game objects are expected to have capsule colliders, we have decided to tackle that first. Unfortunately, we were unable to get the calculations on the capsule to capsule collision correctly. Thus, we fall back to using sphere colliders and got it running until we can further research on how to properly calculate capsule collision.