[ODE] Convex Geometry

Jon Watte hplus-ode at mindcontrol.org
Tue Apr 12 09:19:50 MST 2005


> Just wondering if anyone has ever experiemented using a trimesh to simulate 
> a convex geometry (like a bucket for example). I would like to have a bucket 
> and throw stuff into it, but im not too sure about the performance penalties 
> which this could potentially entail.

If the "stuff" you throw into the bucket is spheres, boxes and cylinders, 
it will work fine. Turn on damping and body auto-sleeping to make the 
performance good even with a full bucket.

Throwing other trimeshes into a trimesh bucket has all of the trimesh to 
trimesh collision problems.

Cheers,

			/ h+




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