[ODE] Pushing an object.

[Vrej Melkonian]

Hi Mohsin,

Yes, geom only. Thanks for correcting.

Also, when I said hinge, I meant the word joint.
So you can use a ball-socket joint between mouse and
the object, with a distance of you choice.

Novodex demoes show this kind of thing and I also saw
it in ODEED
(the ODE editor)
I just ran ODEED.exe and it gives a messagebox
"Context Not created" and that's all.
Same with ODEEDTestbed.exe
ODEEDTestbed also says Need at least OpenGL version
1.1
but I have 2.0 (my drivers are very recent)
hmmm......

--- Mohsin Hasan <mohsin.hasan at trivor.com> wrote:

> Do you mean a geometry only object?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ode-bounces at q12.org
> [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org] On Behalf Of Vrej
> Melkonian
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:46 AM
> To: ODE list
> Subject: Re: [ODE] Pushing an object.
> 
> Happy New Year back to you!
> 
> I was thinking that you could make the object a body
> only object so you can position it as you wish. ODE
> won't apply gravity or any forces to it.
> 
> The hinge method is possible also. It would be as if
> the object is hooked with a tether.
> 
> --- Peter Onion <Peter.Onion at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Happy New Year !
> > 
> > I'm having trouble with a "drag and drop" sort of
> > situation.
> > If you look at this picture
> >
>
http://www.btinternet.com/~Peter.Onion/E803/Drawers.jpg
> > you can see what I'm working on.
> > 
> > The two pink objects represent reels of paper
> tape. 
> > When I press the
> > mouse over a reel I want to be able to drag it to
> a
> > different position,
> > and while it is moving it will push other reels
> out
> > of the way.
> > 
> > This mostly works, except for very small reels
> that
> > become unstable
> > while being dragged.
> > 
> > To move the reels I'm setting the reels linear
> > velocity proportional to
> > the difference between the reel's position a the
> > mouse cursor's position
> > (mapped onto the surface in the 3d space).
> > 
> > Should be using some sort of joint to control the
> > reels motion ?
> > Another idea I had was to create some sort of
> > invisible object at the
> > mouse cursor position and use that to push objects
> > around using the
> > normal collision detection techniques.
> > 
> > Peter  
> > 
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