[ODE] Simulating Magnetism...

[Dominique Louis]

Thanks for the code sample. I am sure it will prove usefull.

Chunky Kibbles wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:31:55PM +0000, Dominique Louis wrote:
> 
>>Has anyone here played the game Katamari Damacy ( 
>>http://www.namco.com/games/katamari_damacy/ ). Anyway basically I was 
>>wondering if it would be possible to use ODE to simulate a large 
>>spherical magnet.
>>
>>How would others suggest I attach other objects to this magnet at 
>>runtime. Would creating a certain type of joint for each new object, be 
>>the way to go?
> 
> 
> Well, attaching items you could do with fixed joints.
> 
> "Simulating Magnetism"... well, magnets obey an inverse square, right?
> 
> const dReal *pos1, *pos2;
> const dReal direction[3];
> dReal DistBetweenBodiesSquared;
> 
> pos1 = dBodyGetPosition(body1);
> pos2 = dBodyGetPosition(body2);
> 
> direction[0] = pos1[0] - pos2[0];
> direction[1] = pos1[1] - pos2[1];
> direction[2] = pos1[2] - pos2[2];
> 
> DistBetweenBodiesSquared = abs(
> 	pow(direction[0], 2) +
> 	pow(direction[1], 2) +
> 	pow(direction[2], 2)));
> 
> dBodyAddForce(body1, -MAGNET_STRNGTH * direction[0] / DistBetweenBodiesSquared,
> 	-MAGNET_STRNGTH * direction[1] / DistBetweenBodiesSquared,
> 	-MAGNET_STRNGTH * direction[2] / DistBetweenBodiesSquared);
> dBodyAddForce(body2, MAGNET_STRNGTH * direction[0] / DistBetweenBodiesSquared,
> 	MAGNET_STRNGTH * direction[1] / DistBetweenBodiesSquared,
> 	MAGNET_STRNGTH * direction[2] / DistBetweenBodiesSquared);
> 
> 
> There's probably some problems with that [I expect I messed up signage -
> taking out the abs will probably fix it.]
> 
> I've never played Katamari Damarcy, so I don't know if it really is a
> magnet, or if you just want a stack of fixed joints.
> 
> In practice, though, it may serve you to not attach bodies at all, but
> instead have the working ball as just a spherical dGeom whose size you
> can increase. No joints means much better performance.
> 
> Gary (-;
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