[ODE] V0.8+ Bugs Update (Att: Bram)

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

dMassTranslate does the right thing to the inertia tensor in the mass 
description. The only problem is that the body doesn't pay attention to 
a non-zero delta off the origin. Now that we have "easy" geom offset 
matrices, perhaps we should re-enable dMassTranslate, and add some 
documentation about how you're supposed to offset the geoms to 
compensate for off-center mass.

Cheers,

          / h+


Viper wrote:

> Next the mass translate issue:
>  
> [ 1661685 ] dMassTranslate not working (V0.8)
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1661685&group_id=24884&atid=382799 
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1661685&group_id=24884&atid=382799>
>  
> You stated in the tracker that the dMassTranslate function name is 
> misleading. If that's the case then the official user guide is also 
> misleading in its description of the function... "Given mass 
> parameters for some object, adjust them to represent the object 
> displaced by (x,y,z) relative to the body frame."
>  
> Previous builds allowed the use of this function, but V0.8+ doesn't 
> allow any values other than 0,0,0.