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My Question:
In bullet it is possible to get the force applied to a kinematics object?
Is it possible to get the force applied to the anchored nodes of a soft body?


My Setup:
I am simulating a robot manipulating a soft body (cloth). When grabbing the cloth, certain cloth nodes are anchored to the grippers.
I am primarily concerned with the cloth behavior and am assuming I can manipulate the grippers kinematically. However, I do want to know the force that the cloth applies on the grippers (both from gravity and from stretching). Since the grippers are kinematic, I suppose I actually want the force the cloth would apply to the grippers if the grippers were not kinematic.

btSoftBody::predictMotion resolves the soft-body impulses, which does apply an impulse to the anchored btRigidBody object. However, this is immediately ignored, as my grippers are kinematic, (and m_inverseMass==0).

I would prefer to keep the grippers as kinematic objects, and also not duplicate the soft body impulse/motion calculations in btSoftBody.

For now I have copied the code from btSoftBody::PSolve_Anchors into a separate callback.
It is less code duplication than I originally thought.

Hello, man
Did you manage to get something new about using kinematic and soft bodies.
I'm doing a really similar project, but using a soft ball.

It will be really useful if you share the results from you simulation.

Thank you very much!