[ODE] executive toy

[Michael Lacher]

Hi!

   I tried to make something resembling an executive toy (the kind where 
some balls are suspended in a row, and when you hit the first, it will 
stop, and the last one will swing, etc ... 
http://www.desktoy.com/item.html?PRID=1151256).

   I have had serious problems, getting this to work, and so I wanted to 
ask if anyone knows if the ODE is actually capable of correctly 
simulating these things (ie: can the force/energy be transferred from 
the first to the last ball through all the others without disturbing 
them ?) What happened in my simulation was that when the first ball hits 
the rest, all 4 of them start moving in a group, but with only one 
quarter of the velocity ....

regards
mucki