Tim Nikias v2.0 wrote:
>>> Take, for example, the distance an object has dropped in free fall, the
>>> formula is
>>> h = g*t^2 / 2
>>> There's nothing like air stopping the falling in this formula, it's 
>>> entirely
>>> simplified, but still relevant. It just assumes that there's no 
>>> friction. I
>>> was asking for the same: in a no friction-system, what's the rate of
>>> slowdown for an object moving uphill?
>>
>>As always the key to solving a problem is to understand it.
> 
> SNIP
> 
> I don't get what you're trying to tell me, and I'm not sure that you got
> what I've been trying to tell you. We have real world issues and simulation
> issues that are independant of each other. Something that happens in a
> simulation doesn't require the real world to behave that way and vice versa.

Now i am stuck, could you please read the question i quoted from you 
above again and tell me if i answered your question or not?  If not 
please specify what is missing.

I have the impression that when you don't like the answer you get you 
simply say that's not what you are trying to do, that you don't want to 
simulate reality at all - fine, but then why do you ask the question in 
the first place?

> Now, my system can solve the problem of rolling uphill via tons of impacts
> and it does look right. But how about just a formula to roll uphill,
> independant of impacts? I was at a loss of the formula, not the issue
> itself.

I did not talk about impacts in my answer at all.

Christoph

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