[ODE] Trimesh-Trimesh and Triangle Normals
Peter Kyme
pk at dneg.com
Sun Jul 3 18:25:50 MST 2005
After struggling to figure out why I was getting such poor results with
the trimesh-trimesh collider (despite the fact it seems to work quite
well in Softimage XSI), I've finally found what appears to be the
problem (for me anyway).
By adding one line that reverses the normals obtained for triangles on
the 2nd trimesh, almost all of the problems I was seeing went away. This
makes sense, since before this I would get contact normals facing in the
wrong direction whenever a triangle normal from the 2nd geometry was used.
Can somebody (Jeff Smith?) explain why I needed to do this? Is it a
symptom of another problem in the way I'm using the trimesh-trimesh
collider?
The above also fixed the problems with the test_moving_trimesh demo as
well for me (once the dGeomTriMeshDataSet call had been added).
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