Hinge2 motor [SOLVED]

[liechten]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a model that has a hinge2 joint and I want it to be able to rotate in both directions in runtime.
After the start of the application I don't want the motor rotating, so I'm setting the Axis2 direction and "0" as acceleration parameter:

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dynamics.setHinge2JointAxis2 ( this.hMotor(), 'hj', 0, 0, 1, object.kGlobalSpace )
dynamics.setHinge2JointAxis2MotorAcceleration ( this.hMotor(), 'hj', 0)


And then, during the game I would like the motor to rotate in one or another direction after I press some key. So, in the onKeyboardKeyDown handler I have the following:

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if(kKeyCode == input.kKeyLeft)
    then
        log.message ( 'rotate left' )
        dynamics.setHinge2JointAxis2 ( this.hMotor ( ), 'hj', 0, 0, 1, object.kGlobalSpace )
        dynamics.setHinge2JointAxis2MotorAcceleration ( this.hMotor(), 'hj', 100000)

    elseif(kKeyCode == input.kKeyRight)
    then
        log.message ( 'rotate right' )
        dynamics.setHinge2JointAxis2 ( this.hMotor ( ), 'hj', 0, 0, -1, object.kGlobalSpace )
        dynamics.setHinge2JointAxis2MotorAcceleration ( this.hMotor(), 'hj', 100000)


To change the direction of rotation I'm setting Axis2 to the opposite direction.
But this does not work the way I want.
After the start of the game it the model moves a bit (some very very small movement, but it is noticeable), although no forces are applied to the model yet.
And when I press kKeyLeft - the model does not react. But when I press kKeyRight - it starts rotating, and do not stop after that.

Please, advise on the using of hinge2 motor feature. Because I could not find any good documentation about it.
If you can post link to some sample code, or an article, describing this - it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Artem

[broozar]

hello artem,

i am not sure if you have seen the documentation example here, so i'll just post it again http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/doc/api/dynamics-createHinge2Joint
dynamics.setHinge2JointAxis2MotorAcceleration is a setup parameter that goes into an init script, not something you want to change on a keypress.

to get a better understanding of hinge2 joints, you should know that shiva uses the ODE physics engine and derives most of those physics functions directly from there. here's the hinge-2 doc for ODE: http://www.ode.org/ode-latest-userguide.html#sec_7_3_5 changing axis on the fly is probably not what you want to do.

Hinges exist between 2 physics objects. to rotate one around the other, apply a force to one of them after you have "jointed" them together, for example using angular velocity http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/doc/api/dynamics-setAngularVelocity or torque http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/doc/api/dynamics-addTorque. those are the functions you want to call on keypress. it is also advisable to just send events with keypresses and not controlling the object in the keypress handler itself.

[liechten]

Thank you for suggestion.