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2 years ago So i am reaching some conclusions. In physics you have 4 kind of nodes:
- KinematicBody/Area (the kinematic is handled in the code, but is has collisions detection and could interact with the physics engine)
- RigidBody/StaticBody (the kinematic is handled by the physics engine, full managed by the physics engine)
After implementing in the 3D godot game the bullets with collisions I have reached the conclusion that I need to understand better how to manage collisions between the elements in a 3D world. Let's research it in this ticket for future challenges.
Physics for managing collisions: Introduced for 2D the basics are the same in 3D. Practical application of the concepts Area and KinematicBody are close. Both of them can detect collisions but the kinematic of both is not managed by the physics engine. Collision shapes (3D)
Collision in 3D is badly covered in the Godot doc. It covers for example Area2D in the Physics 2D intro, but Area (3D alternative) is never covered. Probably it is because in 3D, exactly the same approach of 2D must be followed for collisions.
Probably the best approach is to read the tutorial for the 3D game creation which provides more details.
It is pretty interesting that in the classes doc there are references to tutorials showing how to use them.
It is important to understand the collisions layers and masks.