Anchor point for pivot joint

[kolis]

A small feature request. It would be nice to be able to set anchor points for the pivot joint, and it would also make it more consistent with the other joint types.

[dc443]

Does a Slide joint with min and max distance set to zero function in the same way? It should.

[dc443]

Interesting. I JUST wrote the code to display joints (for debug purposes and whatnot), and it appears that the pivot joint has local body coordinate anchor values. This following code works perfectly:

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else if (joint->type == PIVOT)
		{
			
			cpPivotJoint * pivotJoint = (cpPivotJoint*) joint;
			cpVect pos = cpBodyLocal2World(joint->a,pivotJoint->anchr1);
			glColor3f(1,0,1);
			glPointSize(4.0);
			glBegin(GL_POINTS);
			{
				glVertex2f(pos.x,pos.y);
			}
			glEnd();

		}

I guess you can try editing the anchor values after creating the joint. Maybe it'll work just fine.

[slembcke]

1) You'd think so, but a slide joint with min/max set to 0 is not the same. Slide joints only work on one axis. You have to solve the constraint differently if you want it to work like a pivot. It probably would work, but I'd think it would be much less stable.

2) The reason why you only get one point for pivot joints is so that you cannot initialize the joint to an invalid state. If the anchor points are too far apart when you create the joint, it would pretty much explode (in the numeric sense) and maybe never recover.