The car example uses spheres instead of cylinders.
I was thinking i might make this modification – as
much to teach myself more about ode as anything.
I can’t figure out which way is “up”. How are cylinders
(and cones for that matter) oriented by default?
Is this documented somewhere?
Would anyone like to post a simple example that creates
a cylinder and rotates it into a known orientation?
I agree cylinder’s would be better. However:
The cylinder geom to ODE is quite new. In fact I’m not sure of it’s status except that it was a contrib module for a while. Odejava used to support it - but when I upgraded to the lastest version of ODE I dropped the support due to the fact it was not in the core and therefore a pain to maintain.
Check my latest cvs log entry for GeomCylinder: https://odejava.dev.java.net/source/browse/odejava/odejava/src/org/odejava/GeomCylinder.java
Will.