[ODE] world update - best practices?

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

That depends on what your stability goals are.

Also, the dWorldStep integrator uses no iterations, if that's what you 
want (note: AFAICT they are iterations in the over-relaxation solver, 
not sub-steps).

Cheers,

			/ h+


Greg Mayer wrote:
> from what I read, the default is 20.
> This seems to be an awfully high number of sub-iterations for a system 
> that is already being passed a small, constant time-step?
> 
> In shipped-video games with driving simulations that I have worked on 
> (for consoles like Playstation2 and XBOX (first one)) the entire world 
> simulation was done with 16ms time steps - and no substeps within the 16ms.