Changes to Chrono API (specification of geometric shapes)

[Radu Serban]

Chrono users,

 

FYI:  I recently merged and pushed to the main branch of the Chrono repository a set of changes that affect the specification of primitive geometric shapes (for both visualization and collision).  The modifications and the consequences on the public API are described here: https://github.com/projectchrono/chrono/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#changed-definition-and-use-of-primitive-geometric-shapes.

 

Once you pull the latest code, user code that explicitly creates visualization or collision shapes or uses some other related public functions will need to be updated.  See the relevant Chrono demos.
For users of the Chrono::Vehicle module, note that these changes are transparent and did not affect the use of the various subsystem templates nor do they require changes to JSON vehicle specification files.

Please let me know if you encounter any issues with the new code.

 

Thanks,
Radu