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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Resetti's Replicas on August 11, 2010, 02:14:56 PM

Title: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: Resetti's Replicas on August 11, 2010, 02:14:56 PM
How do I make it so that a skirt attached to a door-hinge starts out at an angle instead of flat on the ground?  I observe that it's a servo, so I can't adjust "Range of Motion Start" like I would a skirt hinge.
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: Sparkey98 on August 11, 2010, 02:16:05 PM
It's in the .txt files somewere.

EDIT: GMF
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: G.K. on August 11, 2010, 02:18:42 PM
No it isn't.

I think you'd have to mod the GMF for that Sonny. Ask Mad or someone who knows better than I do though.
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: Sparkey98 on August 11, 2010, 02:19:02 PM
Sorry I meant .GMF
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: Serge on August 11, 2010, 02:23:25 PM
I think either by adjusting some of the HingeConstraint properties, or just by rotating on of the bodies on the common axis... But this is gonna break compability with other versions of the hinge.
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: Resetti's Replicas on August 11, 2010, 03:34:24 PM
Fair enough.  I was asking because people say they're so much better than skirt hinges, even when I present a design where I need the skirts to lie at an angle, rather than flat on the ground.


EDIT: This topic was meant to be in DSL technical support.  My bad.
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: SKBT on August 11, 2010, 05:26:20 PM
Try changing the skirt hindge values from 0 to something like 10 and then wire a control and move them in the botlab like you would do with a servo.
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: Resetti's Replicas on August 11, 2010, 08:05:17 PM
Is that legal for tournaments?
Title: Re: Adjust the start position of a hinge?
Post by: JoeBlo on August 12, 2010, 04:12:38 AM
no that would be text file editing, which falls into a similar category to AAM

the only thing you can do is wire it as the control "spin" and it will be free moving but thats it...