[ODE] adhesive strength of Hingejoint

[Hampus Soderstrom]

Hi Patrick,

Setting dParamFMax to a high value and dParamVel to 0 would hold the  
joint.

cheers

Hampa
Toribash.com

26 feb 2006 kl. 21.20 skrev Patrick Oppermann at gmx.de:

> Hi!
> I am  working on a virtual assembly arm (with the jMonkeyEngine and
> jmePhysics), which basically consists of boxes connected by
> JointHinge objects.
>
> The Problem is that the arm is always sagging down because of its own
> weight as soon as it is stopped by setting the hinge’s velocity to 0.
> Neither reducing the mass solves the problem, nor does increasing the
> torque.
>
> Is there a way to stabilize the arm when it is not moving? Is there a
> specific ode parameter that controls the ‚grip’, the adhesive
> strength of the Joint? I couldn’t find any yet.
>
> I tried to stabilize it by setting the Hinge’s minAngle and maxAngle
> stops to its current rotation angle (plus/minus a little tolerance)
> when it is stopped. Unluckily the Joint seems to be reset completely
> by dJointSetHingeParam() with the parameter dParamVel. Is that so?
>
> greetings
> Patrick
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