[ODE] Odd Hinge-2 Behaviour?

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

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> My chassis has a 'mass' of 1143. Each of my wheels has mass 15. I
> believe this represents a realistic ratio of weight between wheels
> and chassis. On a side issue, I assume that if I have used m/s/s as
> the units in setting my world gravity, then weights passed to
> dMassAdjust and so on are in grams?

Kilograms.

> Similarly, I have discovered that if I allow my car to fall freely,

I.e. there's no gravity (or "equivalently" no floor), it's floating in space?

> then whereas you'd expect acceleration to cause the wheels to spin
> but not really achieve anything, both the wheels and chassis spin.
>

That's exactly what you'd expect: the wheels would spin one way and the body
would spin the other.  Or are you seeing them spin the same way?

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Gary R. Van Sickle
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