AppT12SuperBallPayload.cpp

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// This application
#include "T12SuperBallPayload.h"
#include "T12SuperBallPayloadController.h"
// This library
#include "core/terrain/tgBoxGround.h"
#include "core/tgModel.h"
#include "core/tgSimViewGraphics.h"
#include "core/tgSimulation.h"
#include "core/tgWorld.h"
// Bullet Physics
#include "LinearMath/btVector3.h"
// The C++ Standard Library
#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    std::cout << "AppT12SuperBallPayload" << std::endl;

    // First create the ground and world
    
    // Determine the angle of the ground in radians. All 0 is flat
    const double yaw = 0.0;
    const double pitch = M_PI/15.0;
    const double roll = 0.0;
    const tgBoxGround::Config groundConfig(btVector3(yaw, pitch, roll));
    // the world will delete this
    tgBoxGround* ground = new tgBoxGround(groundConfig);
    
    const tgWorld::Config config(98.1); // gravity, cm/sec^2  Use this to adjust length scale of world.
        // Note, by changing the setting below from 981 to 98.1, we've
        // scaled the world length scale to decimeters not cm.
    tgWorld world(config, ground);

    // Second create the view
    const double timestep_physics = 1.0 / 60.0 / 10.0; // Seconds
    const double timestep_graphics = 1.f /60.f; // Seconds
    tgSimViewGraphics view(world, timestep_physics, timestep_graphics);

    // Third create the simulation
    tgSimulation simulation(view);

    // Fourth create the models with their controllers and add the models to the
    // simulation
    T12SuperBallPayload* const myModel = new T12SuperBallPayload();

    // Fifth, select the controller to use. Uncomment desired controller.

    // For the T6RestLengthController, pass in the amount of cable to contract
    // in. This is the "rest length difference": the static offset of cable
    // length between geometric length in equilibrium and the actual rest length
    // of an individual cable. 
    // Note for the above scale of gravity, this is in decimeters.


    SuperBallPrefLengthController* const pTC = new SuperBallPrefLengthController(9);


    // For the T6TensionController,
    // Set the tension of the controller units of kg * length / s^2
    // So 10000 units at this scale is 1000 N

    // T6TensionController* const pTC = new T6TensionController(10000);

    myModel->attach(pTC);
    simulation.addModel(myModel);
    
    // Run until the user stops
    simulation.run();

    //Teardown is handled by delete, so that should be automatic
    return 0;
}