[ODE] 2d system

John DeWeese deweese at ict.usc.edu
Wed Apr 2 08:19:01 2003


... which comes from using a jackhammer to do the work of a ball pein 
hammer.   :)

Hey, nice to see that you're going to give this a try. Keep us posted.

   - John

Christopher Jefferson wrote:
> At 08:43 02/04/2003 -0500, J. Perkins wrote:
> 
>> Just a thought, but...
>>
>> Couldn't you get ODE to work in 2D by creating a collision plane and 
>> then setting the gravity high enough to keep all of your objects on 
>> the "ground"? Set your camera to look straight down on this plane and 
>> it would seem you'd get the right effect.
>>
>> Is there some reason that this approach would not work?
> 
> 
> This is actually what I am doing at the moment. The problem comes from 
> the fact that ODE (and any system of this type) lose accuracy as the 
> relative size of parameters get bigger.
> 
> Chris
> 
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