[ODE] Steering, and feedback?

[Thomas Harte]

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>The interesting thing here is that this is the way it works in real
>life, and if one could also read the "stress" the Amotor has to go
>through to keep the wheels at the same place or turn them, you'd have a
>perfect setup for force feedback joysticks and wheels. Is this possible?
>How? I need the "feedback" for other things as well, like engine load.

Grab the latest version, 0.035 and check out the functions:

void dJointSetFeedback (dJointID, dJointFeedback *);
dJointFeedback *dJointGetFeedback (dJointID);

Which will allow you to get torque and force (presumably linear?) applied to both
bodies as the result of any given joint.

-Thomas

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