[ODE] Boiling effect

Nate W coding at natew.com
Thu Aug 1 02:05:02 2002


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 Daniel.Groll@t-online.de wrote:

> I know that boxes have only one contact point for box to box collision.
> But I have a strange effect which occurrs also on a plane: I create
> some boxes which ly on a plane. Suddenly they begin to shake. They only
> shake occasionally and sometimes they seem to be stable. And one thing
> is weird: They calm down when I create a car which I set on the plane.
> Any idea what this could be?

I saw this kind of thing when I had a bug in my collision callback
handler, I was getting two or three contacts generated, but was only
actually adding one contact.  Make sure you're looping properly on the
results of the dCollide function.

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
http://www.natew.com