[ODE] placing static (non-moving) geoms

Nate W coding at natew.com
Tue Apr 15 11:29:01 2003


On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Matthews, Steve USA wrote:

>   Can anyone please tell me how to place a geom (at a location other
> than the origin) that is non-moveable, or for which collision works,
> but physics doesn't?  I want to place the walls of a building, and I
> don't want them to be moveable, but I want collision detection to work
> against them.  Guess I could use another product, but I thought maybe
> there was a way to do this in ODE.

You can do this in ODE, just create the geom and don't attach it to a
body.  See 11.4 in the user guide:

http://opende.sourceforge.net/ode-latest-userguide.html#ref96

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
http://www.natew.com