[ODE] Heightfield Origin Change

[Jean de Largentaye]

Hi Dave,

I'm well aware of the issues surrounding your (great!) heightmap
contrib and the position of its origin.
I just wanted to point out, a little early maybe, that it'd be wise to
choose one of the origins as a default (I'm in favor of center,
personally) at some point before the next release, and stick to that.
We already have enough issues regarding the different versions of ODE
that the release code allows (Single/Double precision, OPCODE or not).


On 7/26/06, David Walters <hidden.asbestos at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I guess it's just a temporary fix until the Wise General Population
> > decides whether it is best to have the position at the center or on
> > the corner?
>
> Hi, this point was discussed a fair bit the other week, both sides
> were pretty equally divided, but as the position for all other geoms
> is the centre it would seem easier for newcomers to the project if it
> was like that. Consistancy is important when you're learning in my
> opinion.
>
>
> Otherwise, I worry much about having such a big potential
> > difference in people's code, which will make code sharing problematic.
> > Or am I just being fidgety and a PITA?
>
> If you have code which relies on the original corner location then you
> can use a pre-processor macro to activate this configuration, so there
> should be no problems interfacing in this case.
>
> Bear in mind that although this (partial) functionality has existed as
> a contrib for quite a long time, heightfields have only been part of
> ODE for a few weeks (and only in the very latest SVN revisions, not
> the last official release) - therefore it seems much less likely to be
> disruptive as I'd wager that few people are using this geom type yet.
>
> Regards,
> Dave.
>