[ODE] General lack of understanding

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

Try looking at the Raycar example, perhaps? It's a small tech demo that 
shows how to run a vehicle, and a FPS player, through a level of 
collision geometry.

http://www.mindcontrol.org/~hplus/raycar/

Cheers,

          / h+


mal content wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm really struggling to understand how to use the ODE library. The
> documentation
> is well written, but lacks examples. The unit tests are incomprehensible to
> somebody not already well-versed in the library.
>
> Anyway, I've managed to throw this together (it's pseudo-2D, and there's
> absolutely no documentation on the "correct" way to do this, so I'm guessing):
>
> http://pastebin.ca/250230
>
> (if you'd like the complete source as a .tgz, please ask, the entire
> directory is only 900 lines or so).
>
> I'm stuck. I don't understand what to do with collision detection, as can
> be seen at line 91. I based the collision code on test_boxstack.
>
> What happens, is that a box is dropped onto an immovable box. The dropped
> box just sticks to the other and repeatedly collides. I'm assuming I have to
> handle the collision somehow, but how?
>
> Do I have to do something with mass?
>
> thanks,
> MC
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