[ODE] correctly using dContactGeom structur
Geoff Carlton
gcarlton at iinet.net.au
Wed Sep 27 15:32:10 MST 2006
Christoph Beyer wrote:
> Well, i will ignore 'side1' and 'side2'.
>
>
The side fields give additional information about what part of the geom
collided. For trimeshes, it is obviously the trimesh index. For
boxes, I don't believe it is used. In theory it could hold something
like 0..5 as the closest side, or 6..13 for corner collisions.
For something like a cylinder, if you easily had the information, you
could return 0 for the wrapping part, 1 for the top plate or 2 for the
bottom plate.
That sort of thing helps if the application wants special behaviour on
certain surfaces (sparks, friction, etc). It isn't that essential and
I'm sure there is no problem leaving it blank, however.
Geoff
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