[ODE] setting body positions/orientations

[david@csworkbench.com]

The way I see it, you'll have to update anyway.... because you can't get
the joint velocity parameters that one person just adjusted (by turning or
moving or whatever) until after the timestep to apply it has already
passed (unless you plan to get them to the server and back to everyone
else in the game between _every_ frame... I dunno, is that doable?).  And
since you're going to update positions periodically anyway, you might as
well let the people with fast computers enjoy their expensive hardware.

>> You would probably need to sync position, orientation, linear and
>> angular velocity, and joint velocity to cover all your bases.... and
>> joint fmax if you adjust that dynamically.
>
> Thanks, that was precisely what I wanted to know.
>
>> I think some people actually do that in the
>> network games where they need to dynamically adjust stepsize to keep
>> up with the computer's speed.
>
> I want to do that for networked game, so the question was whether all
> players should run in a lockstep (as fast as the slowest one), or can
> they be run individually, with sync from the server.
>
>
>
> Aras Pranckevicius aka NeARAZ
> http://www.gim.ktu.lt/nesnausk/nearaz/
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