by slembcke » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:48 am
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.