eli5: In a video game, why is it so hard to create hit boxes? And why aren’t they exact copies of the character model?

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Hopefully this hasn’t been asked before on this sub, but I was wondering why so many games struggle with good hit boxes? Why are they even “boxes” in the first place? I would assume they would just be carbon copies of the character model instead of having individual boxes that stretch out over the characters body.

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Collision is expensive to calculate and 1 box containing the whole character is good enough. adding more stuff increases complexity exponentially and you cant run physics in parallel like with graphics.

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