[ODE] Sphere to Cube?

[Bram Stolk]

David Perry wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've created a sphere and have it rolling around my world quite happily.
> 
> What I'm wanting to do is read a keypress and convert this sphere to a
> cube (or if it's already been converted to a cube, convert it back to a
> sphere).
> 
> The problem is I want it to have all the attributes that the previous
> shape did ie. mass, rotation, velocity etc.
> 
> Is this even possible? I've tried looking online for an answer but I'm
> not really sure what I should be looking for exactly.

I guess that you could simply associate a new geom with the body, I don't
expect ODE to 'cache' geometric props between time steps.

But it can be dangerous wrt collisions.
If you switch shapes, you are likely to create a deep penetration that
results in very high forces, which make the body jump.

ODE expects you to build an initial world in a non-colliding state,
and then run the simulation.

If you would add some smart mathematics to your application, so that
after a switch, the body is adjusted for intersections, it would 
probably work pretty well.

  Bram


> 
> Thanks in advance.
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