[ODE] Box/Trimesh contact filtering and oblong geoms

[Rodrigo Hernandez]

Ok, its taken care of :)

Julien LOLLIVIER wrote:

>It seems you're right : with a test like "< FLT_EPSILON", all is perfectly stable, and it filters more contacts than with "== 0". (gcc 3.3.2, x86)
>I've learned something new today, thanks ;)
>
>I think it's obvious, but since I'm using single precision, EPSILON and DBL_EPSILON does not produce a correct behavior.
>
>The same system is used for normals:
>if (fabs(dDOT(in_Normal, Contact->normal)) > 0.99) { ... }
>Correct formulation is something like "> ((dReal)1)-ODE_EPSILON" ?
>
>--
>Julien 'Xfennec' Lollivier,
>CQFD Corp. - Quiris
>http://raydium.cqfd-corp.org/
>
>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:17:00 -0600
>Rodrigo Hernandez <kwizatz at aeongames.com> wrote:
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>>That sounds like it should be changed to EPSILON, either FLT_EPSILON, 
>>DBL_EPISILON or an aproximation if float.h is not available.
>>There is no check for EPSILON on the configure script, but I could 
>>easily add it to autotools, could you try changing your test 0 for an 
>>EPSILON and see what happens then?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
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