[ODE] dMassSetBox

[Megan Fox]

The mass is independant of what geoms you attach to the body.  I tend
to define everything via box masses, simply because it's more
convinient, and I've never really seen any glitches come of it.

-Megan Fox

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 01:15:52 +0530, Kuldip <kuldip at cse.iitk.ac.in> wrote:
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> If I write ...
>  
> 
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> dMassSetBox (&m, 1 ,SIDE1,SIDE1,SIDE1);
> 
> dMassAdjust (&m,MASS);
> 
> body[1] = dBodyCreate (world);
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> dBodySetMass (body[1],&m);
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> BodyParts[1]=dCreateCCylinder (space,SIDE1/2,SIDE2);
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> 
> then what would be the mass of the cylinder? Take SIDE1=2. and SIDE2=4.
> 
> It will be MASS kg     or      MASS*(Volume of Cylinder/Volume of Box having
> all sides=SIDE1)  ?
>  
> Thanks
> Kuldip
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