hi everybody,
i have to implement collision to make my character collect coins and stuff…
i have the classes player and coin, both with a spatial inside and the player that has a betterCharacterControl.
I would like to keep coins not physical, so what’s the easiest way to implement this kind of collision? What exactly should i “bound” ?
i have read a lot of similar topic but seems i can’t get help from them…
The simplest way would simply be to check the distance between your character and the coins, if it is lower than a certain value then you have “collected” it. You don’t need to worry about bounds in this case.
is it the easiest way? It seems so simple and i’ve never thought about it xD
Then what could be most efficient way to check distances if i have a node for the character and i’m planning to have a node for all the coins (then a node for each type of collectables) ?
Thanks for help @Neilos
Just check the distance for each single object, e.g.:
if(targetPosition.subtract(playerPosition).length() < 1){
// collided
}
There is always room for optimisations but it will all depend on your scene setup.
Please note I mentioned…
Not necessarily the best way 
With that said, computing distances for moderate amounts of items is going to be very fast.
excuse me for the dummy question,
i tried to print :
playerNode.getWorldTranslation().distance(coin.Spatial().getWorldTranslation()) and it prints the distance, decreasing it when get closer, but if i put all that in a condition (example < 0.5f ) it gives me always true 
You’d have to show your code I’m a little confused as to what you have done
//playerNode is a node with only the player character attached
float a=playerNode.getWorldTranslation().distance(coin.Spatial().getWorldTranslation());
if(a < 1f );
System.out.println("collides because distance is "+a);
i walk from towards the coin and i pass through it, and this is the output:
collides because distance is 16.355259
collides because distance is 16.25604
collides because distance is 16.156824
collides because distance is 16.057606
collides because distance is 15.95839
collides because distance is 15.859176
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collides because distance is 10.394289remove that semicolon
Basically what you have done is:
if (a < 1f) {
// do nothing
}
System.out.println("collides because distance is "+a);i told you it was a dummy question 
Some helpful advice:: learn to use the debugger to step through code and examine variables. You’d have probably found this issue in less time than it took to write forum post.
Hmmm I always use squaredDistance and compare it to a threshold…
Same concept, slightly faster to use squaredDistance.
I’m not sure whether that would be the most efficient way to do this, but you can always attach Ghost Collision Control Spheres etc to objects and report any collisions when they overlap.
I’ll give you one guess how you modify the first code to use the second. You are allowed to use javadoc (in fact, encouraged to).