[ODE] Damage!

[Anselm Hook]

You have to scavenge the collision penetration depth from the previous
iteration - from actual collisions.  If you are doing your own collision
detection this is pretty easy since your own code generates the contacts
between colliding bodies, otherwise using built in collision you should be
able to look at the contacts generated at the end of an integration step;
they should enumerate the colliding parties and provide some other useful
info.  Hope this hint helps a bit...  if I had more time I would try help
more.

-a

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, wesa aapro wrote:

> hello
>
> i've tried to figure out how to get the energies or impulses of collisions
> from ode world, to give damage to game objects. many of you must have had
> the same problem, but i've seen no posts of the subject. is the answer too
> trivial?
> i can't calculate damage from last iteration's accelerations since in many
> cases there are more than two objects colliding and it's hard to say who
> hurts who...
>
> have you got any ideas how to calculate the damages?
>
> thanks,
> wesa aapro
>
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