[ODE] Switching between an immovable and movable body ? and Manual body control ?

[Adam D. Moss]

Rob Ruck wrote:
 > New to the mailing list, and not surprisingly a few questions:
 >
 > - I know that a static body can be created, i.e. for dgeomsetbody() you 
pass it
 > 0/null body id. Which works fine, but why can this status not be changed
 > during a simulation; if I create a body, set it to geometry, and then 
decide to
 > make it static, using dgeomsetbody() with body id of 0 (and maybe disabling
 > the body, just so the geom and body match up). However, if a geom has
 > previously had a body set to it, setting the body to 0 doesn't work the same
 > as if no body had been set, the geom no longer seems to be collidable, why
 > is this ?

I don't know why -- I presume it's a bug in your code, since this
does indeed work.  Perhaps you are forgetting to apply the
body's rotation and translation to the geom when you 'pin'
the geom.

--Adam
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