Florian Brucker wrote:
> When playing around with MechSim (BTW great job, Christoph!), I came 
> across field functions. But somehow I can't get them to work properly. 
> They behave totally strange. The code below shows my problem.
> 
> The field function which is used is taken from the documentation. If you 
> set DIRECTION (right at the top) to 1, it will result in an upward 
> force, DIRECTION = -1 means a downward force.
> In the first case (DIRECTION = 1), everything is perfectly normal. The 
> masses move up a little bit. But when setting DIRECTION = -1, the masses 
> dissappear. Not totally, of course. Checking the positions reveals that 
> they are far far away. Much farer than with DIRECTION = 1. How can that be?
> [...]

I don't know if this particular problem is related but i did some basic 
changes in the way field forces work soon after the 1.0 release - i did 
some detailed tests after that and it worked pretty well.  I will try 
your scene later.

> 
> BTW, I had to change the declaration of Vector_Function in mechsim.inc from
> 
> [...]

This has been noted before, the fix is fairly obvious so i did not feel 
the need for a patch.

Christoph

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