Description
I'm very passionate about playing fighting games like Street Fighter or Marvel VS. Capcom, so I wanted to do something similar. I know fighting games have simple hitboxes as displayed here, so I was hoping to do something of that sort. I quickly figured out that animating models using just openGL is a much harder task. In addition, doing things like collision detection was troublesome. I understood the math behind it but the actual implementation gave me trouble. Rather than be ambitious and create a simple fighting game, I created a simple person out of cubes that can do a funky kick or punch (not realistic at all) and a punching bag that stays in place until a punch or kick is done.
I was unfortunately not able to implement collision detection in the end. I get the methods of doing it like using a bounding box or bounding spheres. Specifically, with bounding spheres I understand if the combined radii from the center of say the fist of my model and the center of the punching bag is greater than distance of both centers from each other, then there is a collision. Unfortunately, I was unsure of how to implement it.
