[ODE] GIMPACT with doubles

Jason Perkins starkos at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 06:36:16 MST 2006


On 11/2/06, Pierre Terdiman <pierre.terdiman at novodex.com> wrote:
> Note that the only place where doubles are actually needed is the
> world-space position of your objects.

I've wondered about this myself - why does /everything/ have to be in
double precision? Do I really need that extra precision in the lengths
of my box sides? Does it really help in the quaternions? It seems like
we could save a lot of memory by only using doubles where they
actually bought us something. It would be a straightforward -- if
labor intensive -- modification.

Jason


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