CreateMesh bounding box, what is it ?

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CreateMesh bounding box, what is it ?

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I'm using createmesh command to make custom 2D sprites ?
Is it usefull to set this parameter in this case ?



CreateMesh( boundingbox )
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It's for collision detection.
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Actually I'm not so sure anymore but I remembered a similar functionality from Blitz3D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_box
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_sphere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_volume

Also in the whole PB manual the "bounding box" is only mentioned 3 times:

http://purebasic.com/documentation/mesh/createmesh.html
http://purebasic.com/documentation/engi ... epick.html
http://purebasic.com/documentation/engi ... debug.html
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