[ODE] Avoiding torque

[Martin C. Martin]

If your objects are all spheres, turning off friction should help.

- Martin

Marco Bancale wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using ODE for my little game. It works fine, but I need to NOT
> have the torque effect caused by bouncing.
> 
> My game is like a pool game, but I don't want balls have angular
> velocity. They must move, but not rotate in any direction.
> 
> I achieved this non-physic behavior simply setting to zero the
> angular velocity before every call to dWorldStep():
> 
> dBodySetAngularVel(body, 0, 0, 0);
> 
> It seems to work, but sometimes the ball, after some bouncing with
> walls, has a little bit of torque again.
> 
> Is this the right way to avoid torque? Or is there another "right way"?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>         Bye Bye
>         Marco
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