Clarification on the user manual: Chapter Constraints

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yousry
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Clarification on the user manual: Chapter Constraints

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I have some remarks on Chapter 7 "Constraints" in the 2.83 user manual:
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"Constraint act between two rigid bodies, where at least one of them needs to be dynamic."
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Is wrong because a constraint can be set up with one body and a pivot point.

Also Pivot points are defined differently in a single (global-space reference) / dual body (local-space reference) setup.

At least this is what I gathered from the examples so far.
Basroil
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Re: Clarification on the user manual: Chapter Constraints

Post by Basroil »

You're looking at it all wrong :wink: Just think of the world itself being the second body if no second body is defined. By doing that, you'll see that all definitions are in fact body local, it just so happens that one "body" shares an origin and orientation with the world itself. It's no different than if a randomly defined static body was used.
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