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The collision_boxes for entities are useful, but when a player sits e.g. in a car, helicopter or whatever, they just look ugly.

Being able to hide/show the collision_box while keeping its functionality would be very useful and I think quite a mot of mods would need this.

Allowing them to rotate with the entity would be nice too, while we're at it. Or do they already?

thetoon wrote:Allowing them to rotate with the entity would be nice too, while we're at it. Or do they already?

They don't. (Another solution is to make the box that covers all possible rotations, but does become much larger.)

Jordach wrote:(Another solution is to make the box that covers all possible rotations, but does become much larger.)

This is not a solution : it will then collide with many things it shouldn't.

Press [ f1 ] is what I do... Many newer people wouldn't know though...

philipbenr wrote:Press [ f1 ] is what I do... Many newer people wouldn't know though...

F1 hides the whole HUD. i want to toggle the box, when the driver gets in/out.

Yeah. I vote for implementing this feature too as well as for let collision box rotate!

Sounds good to me. Is this in the giving feedback to the core developers thread?

thetoon wrote:

Jordach wrote:(Another solution is to make the box that covers all possible rotations, but does become much larger.)

This is not a solution : it will then collide with many things it shouldn't.

Make it an average of “fully straight“ and “45 degrees rotated” (like boats and hovers in Carbone), it works quite well.

Anyway, OP should reduce the bounding box height for now to avoid issues.

Rotating hitboxes are very hard to set up, if not impossible.

But, the ability to hide bounding box is a good idea anyway, but not yet implemented.

Calinou wrote:...
Rotating hitboxes are very hard to set up, if not impossible.
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Why? What`s the difference between simple cube and hitbox? Or the problem is in complicated hit detection?