[ODE] Arbitrarily positioning bodies connected by joints

[Shamyl Zakariya]

Your code is pretty much the same as mine. I suspect the reason that  
yours works is that no physics steps are calculated before applying  
the transformation.

I'm actively pursuing this, if I have any luck, I'll post my  
solution. My guess, however, is that this just doesn't work. Bummer.

shamyl at zakariya.net
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On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:46 AM, STenyaK (Bruno González) wrote:

> I'm not sure about this, but IIRC joints need not be moved nor
> rotated. As long as you move and rotate the bodies correctly, so that
> relative positions/rotations stay the same, joints would behave
> properly after that. I don't know what happens when the body is static
> (#0), never tried it, but in the case of moving vehicles you'll not be
> using static bodies anyway.
>
> I coded it in my car sim long ago; only tried it for initial positions
> (before any physic step was computed, that is). The code is prolly
> abstracted a bit too much, but maybe it can help you. See lines 695
> and below here:
> http://motorsport.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/motorsport/trunk/src/ 
> common/worldObject.cpp?revision=468&view=markup
>
>