[ODE] How to Avoid Walls when using 4 spheres and box for a Car

[kurimail]

Thanks for your answer Tim. I know that hacks too. I tried to skip contact
points for those situations, but was hard to do well and the result was
strange when colliding again.

I always hear about 4spheres and 1box car system but people never complain
about this problem...

The mass solution is the best i have found so far, but then the car gets
too heavy in some situations...

Any more ideas?


> Temporary hacks could be to increase the mass of the cars || increase
> gravity || add a couple of bounding boxes right infront of the wheels so
> that with a collision with a wall, the boxes would collide, and the
> spheres
> will not be able to even touch the walls.
>  Most have side-effects, yet the last idea could be pretty logical.
>  Good luck!
> Tim
>
>  On 9/15/05, kurimail <kurimail at arrakis.es> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the long topic name, but that is my question...
>>
>> When i use 4 spheres for the car and i get near to a wall the car goes
>> up
>> trying to climb the wall. Is there any way to avoid this?
>>
>> I know that a possible solution could be to make the box for the car
>> bigger than it is, but i don't want to use this because then the car
>> collides with nothing (space between the wall and the real body car).
>>
>> any help please?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
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