[ODE] movement force conversion

[Megan Fox]

Sorry for the double sending here - to specify, you just take each
frame of animation data from your animation, and use those quaternions
as the desired orientation for each joint.  The physics engine is the
one responsible for trying to get the limbs into position, the max
speed of movement based on the FMax you specify per joint (as well as
each limb's mass).

-Megan Fox

> The nifty thing is that you've got a physics engine here, so you end
> up not really needing to do the calculation yourself.  What you do is
> model your character model out as if it were a ragdoll, with the
> various desired joints, and then add an AMotor to each joint.  Set a
> reasonable FMax for each joint based on the strength of the character
> in question, and then just drive the motion of the limbs by specifying
> the desired orientation of each limb.
> 
> One person on this list was using a system like this to drive the
> model of a giant boss at the end of a level - they had it knocking
> down walls when it swung its arms, kicking things out of the way as it
> stomped towards you, etc.  Very cool stuff, if a little
> computationally expensive to do for ALL your characters.
> 
> -Megan Fox
> 
> > that is what interest me in longer time, but now before any
> > research: it is possible to turn stored forward kinemtic animation
> > into forward dynamics? I was always thinking that kinemtic move is a
> > result of dynamics so it could be realy hard to make sth backward.
> > Simply said I want to do know whether it could bo possible to convert
> > animations like in Cal3d into forward dynamic animation. Sorry If this
> > sounds stupid, but I didn't read any precise docs about forward
> > dynamics at all but I intend to do this in the nearest future.
>