Energy released by impact

dbrank0
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Energy released by impact

Post by dbrank0 »

How does one calculate it? It would be one way to measure rigid body damage incured by collisions. I guess one simplified way to do it would be just calculating collision speed and multiply it by mass, but I suppose more accurate value is already calculated during simulation.

I read something about m_appliedImpulse, but there is no such member in contact data.

Is there a way to read or calculate this?

Thanks.