Well...we said it would be a problem..

[xnomad]

Originally Posted by Langnasen

Talking balls, trees can't have "hitboxes because it would kill the server". Tree with no hitbox = 1. Tree with hitbox = 2. It's a data-point with a nominal value. The reason the trees have no 'hitboxes' is because the game was coded by chimps. That's why the entire enchilada is a bus-wreck.

Are you serious? So creating a configuration file variable auto-magically does all the coding for you in the back end? I'm going to open my config file tonight and put in fw190=1 and I'll be flying the butcher bird all night! Sweet!

Your solution ignores creating the objects in the physics engine. Sure the flipping a bit from 0 to 1 is simple but that's only a parameter value, what happens in the background? Going from no collision model to suddenly every tree has a collision model would require creating each tree in the physics engine. I'm not a software developer so I don't even know what goes into creating hit boxes but I can appreciate that just doing that would eat up resources with a map of this size.