[ODE] Step fast issue?

[Nate W]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Amund [ISO-8859-1] Børsand wrote:

> I don't know if this last part is what screws it up, or if it's just
> the complexity, or if it has something to do with ERP and CFM values,
> though I have tried adjusting them as well... my cars only fall into a
> blob on the ground, the main body (with no collision geometry) hanging
> about 1 unit below the ground, while all the wheels make a lump above
> it. My rigid axles are also not rigid anymore, just floating around
> between the wheels. I have tried up to 100 iterations, making little
> difference.

This sounds like a much-too-large CFM value. Like, orders of magnitude too
large.  Try dividing it by 10, and if that doesn't work divide by ten
again, and so on.  I usually get best results around 0.01-0.001, and that
includes cars with double-wishbone suspension.

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
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