[ODE] How do you get apps to work with gravity=9.8?

[Fredrik Sandström]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Adam Rotaru wrote:

> >
> > Thanks, that did the trick. Now I'm just wondering
> > why you don't use 9.8 for the gravity. Does it have
> > something to do with stability?
>
> I would guess you could have achieved the same effect
> by
> reducing the masses proportionally (and leaving the
> CFM
> values untouched).  There's no magic value for the
> gravity.
>
Hmm, no that wouldn't give the same behaviour would it? The gravity is an
accelleration so making it smaller makes things more "floaty".
Changing the "world scale" appropriately (i.e. making everything approx.
18 times smaller) would do the trick I believe since that would affect
perception of both object accelleration and density. My point is that
regardless of the objects weight it will accellerate the same as long as
it's only affected by gravity...(feather and hammer on the moon).

Or am I still too sleepy to think straight?

/Fredde

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