[ODE] Re: Strange stops on a u-joint?

[Megan Fox]

Argh, disregard.  As usual, figured the problem out right after I hit
"send"... I just needed to look at a picture of a real U-Joint to
understand why I was seeing this, meh!

Thanks anyways,
-Megan Fox

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:21:35 -0700, Megan Fox <shalinor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm setting a u-joint up with two fairly standard axis - (1, 0, 0) and
> (0, 0, 1).  I then set both sets of lo/hi stops to -1.57 and 1.57.  My
> expectation is that I'll end up with my limb moving freely in the +z
> hemisphere, but never rotating about the limb's axis directly.
> 
> (the limb is a long box, more or less, and it starts pointing straight up)
> 
> ... but what I get is a limb that only moves freely in one half of
> that hemisphere.
> 
> Now I assume I'm just misunderstanding how to set the stops in this
> case (or, more specifically, how stops on different axis interact).
> Can someone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong here?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Megan Fox
>