My hillbilly collision system

Hi y'all,

I just spent three days setting up collision in my game, at times laughing with tears of hysteria, because it was just a little tedious. In the end, I find the whole thing quite amusing, and not a little gratifying because it seems to work "just fine" and also doesn't appear to have brought the net code to it's knees. Also I think it looks kinda cool so I thought I'd show it off:

First: I have these giant stacks of books in my kid's room (if you're not familiar with my game, Singularity FPS, the basic character is a tiny little toy soldier in a big world). I thought that'd be cool, you know, to jetpack or otherwise make your way to a nice little nook on the bookstacks and set up a firing position. So I'm building the models and I'm like "dude, you should really twist the books around 'cause that would look kewl, and I'll just add collision boxen "before it's released":
Well, that time is drawing quite near (for a test version, that is), and as it would be unutterably lame to put out a version without collision on such an important feature, I set to doing it in the Mission editor. I just made an approximately book-size dts which I resized appropriately...over and over and over again. At the moment it's got a smokey translucent texture, and in production I'll just swap out that texture for a clear one. Here's one of the columns collided up real good:
Here I've grabbed the collision DTS's and moved them off to the side for your edification:
And here they are selected so you can see a little better:
And lastly, I had to do some similar work on some other models that I just couldn't let go:
You can see why I'm so keen on a production polysoup collision setup! It would be grand for the little soldier guys to collide with the spokes of the wheel, for example. (Don't think I wasn't tempted to give each spoke it's own little collision tube...and it may yet happen.)

Anyway...I experimented with having a non-textured mesh along with the collision with a -1 LOD, and I didn't see a change in the framerate. But I can't help wondering if there isn't anything that I could do better in a technical sense.

An editor with isometric views (like Constructor) would have been sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much easier...but after a brief port to 1.5.1 I decided that this was not the time for that job yet, so I had to stick with the good old Mission Editor, which is a wonderful tool in it's place....and I still love it :-)

Long story short--it IS a grand thing to jetpack to a random book, hiding in plain sight, and taking pot shots at UFO's!