Milti axes spring Joint & get orientation question.

Hey all,

Ive just run into a problem, not so much a problem but is there an easier way to do it.
What i want is a joint that can rotate on 2 axes, but to also be affected by spring force.

Imagine a big leaf on a jungle plant, like the CRYTEK 2 engine plants.
Download CRYTEK 2 tech demo: http://uk.media.pc.gamespy.com/media/69 ... ids_1.html (the Motion Blur bit showing off the the plants

My problem is atm i am making 2 revoluteJoint's with a setSpring jointDescription.
Only each leaf will have 3-4 joints, making 6-8 per leaf.

And this is going up in number by each plant with # leaves on it in a dense area!

Anyway to achieve this affect with just 1 joint instead of 2?

Also is there an easy way to grab a joints x,y & z orientation using a get* command inside Nxogre??

Code example would be great!

Thanks

I should of answered this a few days ago, but:

Could you just use - Spherical joints on each base of the leave (of the main branch of the plant), and to limit the movement just use a limit as well as linear and angular dampening.

And for a X,Y,Z for a NxJoint? I'm not sure, I don't have the SDK handy, but I know it's not in NxOgre.

OK,
That should work.

I am using OgreNewt as well & have achieved what i wanted in newton now.
Shouldn't be hard to do it in Nx aswell.

The getting orientation was so i could attach a model with a skeleton & have the skeleton follow the joints orientations.

Then you have the answer

Getting the joint position should be too hard, even if you have to get it from the body position and work from that.