[ODE] ODE stability

[DjArcas]

It's saying that the size of your bodies should be *about* one, and that the
density should be *about* one, and that the weight is *about* one...

So if you're doing a car game, make your cars 1 unit long, and scale
everything else accordingly (ie a bus would be 4 units long, and a tyre 0.1
units long)

You've got quite a lot of leeway, but ODE likes small numbers much more than
it likes big ones, so a 0.7 (decametre) unit long car is much better than a
700 (centimetre) car.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "arcad" <arcad at orion-mm.ru>
To: <ODE at q12.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: [ODE] ODE stability


> Hello ODE,
>
> Anyone, explain please enigmatic phrase from manual ODE - keep lengths and
masses around 1.
> I use other system of the units - 1 unit is one centimetre.
> Accordingly sizes of bodies beside from several units before several
hundred units.
> May be so beside me problems with stability?
> The Bodies at all can not quiet down and continue to tremble.
> They that is mildly ruined, that is popped.
> Such sensation that with each frame on differ magnitude.
> Is it Beforehand thanked, Arcad.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  arcad                          mailto:arcad at orion-mm.ru
>
>
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