[ODE] adding force to an auto-disabled body

[rod kay]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 22:38 -0800, Erin Catto wrote:
> Suppose you press a box up against a wall. Shouldn't it be allowed to go to
> sleep?
> 
> Erin 

   Perhaps in some cases, but in a realistic sim, shouldn't the wall be
experiencing a constant pressure from the box ? 

   I guess the ode devs decided to leave re-enabling of dBodys in the
ode users hands. Maybe to point out the situation to those new to ODE, a
line or two could be added to the ode docs, mentioning that a force
applied to an auto-disabled dBody, will not have effect.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org] On Behalf Of rod kay
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:10 AM
> To: ODE mailing_list
> Subject: [ODE] adding force to an auto-disabled body
> 
> hello,
> 
>     i was wondering why auto-disabled dBody's are not 'auto-enabled'
> whenever a new force is applied to the body ? is there a prohibitive
> performance penalty ?
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rod.
> 
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