Annoying graphic bug

[Skner]

Not sure if one like this is already here, if there is, show me a link and delete this topic..

examples:
my camera thingy is being rather annoying cause when i walk down a stair, i see the other side of the stair instead of myself. im using third person view..

i pop up in the dr (probably cause i died.. :p) and i see the big round thing from the other side which im not supposed to see, i cant see myself or anyone inside of that spawning point in the dr...

my girlfriend once had the same problem but i have no idea how we fixxed it...anyways is there a solution to this? cause she isnt having problems with it anymore...

as i said, if theres a topic about this already, link me trough cause im not going to spend a whole day to find the correct words to find this specific issue...

oh btw i have the windows xp version of ps

[LigH]

I guess the camera needs a little bit bigger bounding box/sphere to avoid diving into the scenery.

[Wired_Crawler]

Try this: -> Third person follow.

[Skner]

thanks...
like laragorn said, i feel like a true noob... 

you guys can delete this thread now

[Ahriman]

Don't. We all make mistakes and dont check stuff. Hey- we're human. And humans aren't perfect. 

[Faolach]

I have the same problem as skner. Usually the camera has correct colision dectection and stops when it hits a wall, but sometimes it can go through the walls and floor. On the Ojaroad, i found a piece of bread stuck in a wall by accident this way. It's really annoying because sometimes i see an onionskin of where my mouse was, and sometimes it sends me to the death realm (fell off the edge of the world bug). What is wrong? Is there a bug in camera collision detection? This isn't really important, but it's kinda annoying.

[LigH]

I guess the camera needs a little bit bigger bounding box/sphere to avoid diving into the scenery.

... because with a too small bounding box, half of the camera is able to dive through the wall -- and too near objects (Z-buffer near plane / viewing frustum culling), or faces oriented away from the camera (backface culling), are not drawn to improve rendering performance.