[ODE] Moving joints that are attached to the static environment

[Frederic Ferland]

Anyone's got an idea?

Thanks!


At 01:26 PM 7/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hopefully there is a simple solution to the problem I'm facing...  I have 
>modeled a bridge with several individual planks attached by ball 
>joints.  Each pair of plank is attached together with two joints, except 
>for the two planks at each end of the bridge, which are attached to the 
>static environment.  This creates a flat bridge like this (as seen from 
>the side):
>
>   x---------o---------o---------o---------o---------o---------x
>
>What I would like to do is be able to move the leftmost joint (the one 
>attached to the static environment) to the right so that the bridge bends 
>like this:
>(ugly ASCII art :) )
>
>
>x                                                                   x
>     \                                                           /
>          o                                                o
>                \                                      /
>                      o  --------- o --------- o
>
>
>I haven't tried, but I'm pretty sure that if I simply call the 
>dJointSetBallAnchor( ) function with the new position, I won't get the 
>desired result.  How can I achieve the desired result then?
>
>Thanks for any idea!
>
>
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