[ODE] Jitters

Jon Watte hplus-ode at mindcontrol.org
Tue Nov 9 11:59:07 MST 2004


> Should the damping also be scaled by the simulation step size in this
> case?  It seems important to factor in the step size if you're scaling
> the velocity directly, but what about the cases where you're adding an
> opposing force/torque proportional to eithe velocity or momentum?

Forces are automatically integrated over time, so no such time-scale 
damping should be done.

You WILL have different behavior with different step sizes, though, 
because of the first-order integrator used by ODE.

Cheers,

			/ h+




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