Creating hollow cylinder

Naruto · Post by **Naruto** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:33 pm

Hi,

Does anybody know ,how to create a hollow cylinder in bullet 2.77?

ciphr · Post by **ciphr** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:56 am

As, it's non-convex shape, you should use kind of trimesh.
See manual, it has a nice shape-choose helper

Flix · Post by **Flix** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:41 am

Naruto wrote:Does anybody know ,how to create a hollow cylinder in bullet 2.77?

You may find this snippet (and the whole series of related posts) useful: http://www.bulletphysics.org/Bullet/php ... wer#p21575

Erwin Coumans · Post by **Erwin Coumans** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:02 am

Even better is if you can approximate a hollow cylinder using boxes or convex parts, and combine them into a btCompoundShape.

Thanks,
Erwin

Naruto · Post by **Naruto** » Thu May 05, 2011 6:40 pm

Hey thanx a lot

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