Re: [simspark-devel] setBox or setBoxTotal?

[Joschka B. <jbo...@un...>]

Hi Yuan,

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 22:29 +0800, Yuan Xu wrote:

> While debugging our robot, I noticed that the FRP force is only about
> half of the gravity.
> However, this is not the problem of FRP, but the mass set function in
> rsg/boxspheres/box.rsg and rsg/boxspheres/sphere.rsg.
> The 'setBox' and 'setSphere' which accept the density ads argument are used!
> And the correct functions ( 'setBoxTotal' and 'setSphereTotal' ) are
> commented out in the files!!
> I do not know if this is intended, why?

You're right, this is a problem I had totally forgotten about (too many
problems recently ;-) ). I put in the calls to the set..Total functions
a while ago, but they led to very instable simulations in my tests.

Have you tried to use the correct functions? What's the behavior in your
case?

Cheers,
Joschka