[ODE] gravity units?

[Keith Wiley]

The docs say that dWorldSetGravity takes m/s/s as parameters, such  
that -9.81 would be Earth's gravity, but how does this translate to  
ODE's unit system?  Is 1 unit equal to 1 meter?  If not, how does one  
figure out a realistic Earth gravity setting?  This is even more  
complicated since it is affected both by the maximum framerate at  
which the program permits the main loop to be called and by the  
iterations and max step parameters used for dWorldQuickStep, so how  
does one get a particular desired gravity with all these variables?

Thanks.

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Keith Wiley         kwiley at cs.unm.edu         http://www.unm.edu/~keithw

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