[ODE] cylinder plane bug

[Bram Stolk]

Tomek Klin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was founded another bug. If whole cylinder is under plane then this
> fall forever.
> 
> this is fix to this bug
> www.klinik.freehost.pl/download/collision_cylinder_plane.cpp
> 

Hmmm... this may be a controversial one:
Personally, I think that the current behaviour of not generating
contact points if the whole cylinder is behind the plane is the
desirable behaviour.

If you start to 'rectify' the position of a geom that is far
below a plane, then huge forces are put on the body to get it
above the plane. I think that this will make the simulation
unstable, and it is better to let the body keep on falling.

   Bram



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