Extremely deformed geometry

Yesterday I downloaded OgreNewt to try implementing physics in my engine. Today I've been making my first attempts to get it running. I've written a method to attach a physics body to an existing node (nCharacter), and following the wiki tutorial, seeing that everywhere it's done the same way, all I get is the entity of the node deforming anormally :S

Maybe I'm missing something?

Body* Physics::setCharacter(Node* nCharacter, float fMass)
{
cout << "* Assigning physic body to character node '" << nCharacter->getName() << "'..." << endl;

float fRadius = 0.3;
float fHeight = 1.6;

Collision* coli = new CollisionPrimitives::Capsule(world, fRadius, fHeight);
Body* body = new Body(world, coli);

Ogre::Vector3 vInertia = MomentOfInertia::CalcCylinderSolid(fMass, fRadius, fHeight);
body->setMassMatrix(fMass, vInertia);
body->attachToNode(nCharacter);
body->setStandardForceCallback();

delete coli;

return body;
}

This method is member of a class Physics that inherits Ogre::FrameListener and I call world->update() in every frameStarted passing it the timeSinceLastFrame value...

Any help?

Thanks in advance!

You .mesh character file need be center at center of bounding box. Press F3 in application and you understand what means problem.

I think I understand what you meant.

What I've done now is export the mesh with the pivot centered. [EDIT] This should put the mesh strictly centered in the Collision objct [/EDIT]. I've also modified the Collision object so that it now is a box which dimensions are slightly greater than the mesh ones, just in case, but I don't think it's important.

And the result is the same as before

By the way, what application do you mean?

I mean your game, default newton listener after pressing F3 shows debug mesh, you can too do it - enable debuger and showLines() hideLines(). what program to modeling you use?

Oh, I see. I'm not using the basic frame listener that comes with OgreNewt, but I've just added the necesary code (init(scnMgr) and showLines(world)) to activate the debugger on my own. It's crashing when it calls the debugger init method. Everything is going wrong here

I'll try to recompile the lib later. Maybe I did something strange.

Sorry I didn't say it before. I'm working under OS X (xCode has not a good debugger...) and modelling with Maya 2008.

No way

The demos work perfectly, but for an unknown strange reason Newton doesn't like my project...

Thanks for your support, BardockSSJ

some tips of me, how in my projects works:

Debuger Init - in createFrameListener()
"OgreNewt::Debugger::getSingleton().init(Core::SceneMgr);"

Debuger DeInit in ~GameApplication()
"delete Core::Physics;"
"OgreNewt::Debugger::getSingleton().deInit();"

World init in GameApplication()
"Core::Physics=new OgreNewt::World();"

showLines/hide - anywhere in framestarted.

My code looks fairly identical as yours and my application crashes when it tries to initialise the debugger. All this makes me think that Newton is not working correctly on Leopard. As far as I know (it's on the web page) this Mac library version was built on 2006, so it would not surprise me

I think I'll give a try to OPAL to see if i'm a bit more lucky

If not working with similar code - definetly OS port causes problem..

Go to the Newton forums and PM Julio for the 2.0 beta SDK, it's updated pretty much weekly and has an active Mac version. If you don't want to then use Newton directly, ask Walaber about his Newton 2.0 version of OgreNewt.