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Hi,
Just saw on one of your videos that V-rep should be able to model water environment !
How to do that ?
What control do we have on this environment ? (I would like to make some waves of a defined magnitude)

Best regards,
Kévin Exmelin

Hello,

You can fake the behaviour of water, water currents, etc., by applying auxiliary force/torques to objects. Take the example of model Models/robots/mobile/ACM-R5.ttm : as soon as the robot moves off the platform, it will be in the water. For each robot element, following will be done:

• A buoyancy force will be calculated and applied
• A drag force perpendicular to the element longitudinal axis will be computed and applied

In a similar way, you could apply additional forces such as water currents, etc. Waves is probably more difficult to model, but you could try to handle this with auxiliary forces too.

Cheers