Tokamak, ODE, or Newton physics engine?

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:05 am

Which works better with Irrlicht and which is easier to implement? Which offers more advantages and why?

There r tuts to integrate each of them to Irrlicht but they don't mention which one is better.

For what I've read, ODE is the only one that's open source and that's its main strength. The other 2 have released some source but will become commercial products soon.

so?

Electron · Post by **Electron** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:08 pm

I use Newton, and I have not heard that it will become commercial. I hope not. Newtonis supposed to be stabler than the other two, though at soem speed cost. Newton is a C API wherea Tokamak is C++. Not sure about ODE. IMHO the Tokamak docs are horrible, though large community. Newton is newer and so the community is a little smaller. I like Newton's material system, really helps AI. I'm not sure if the other two have anything comparable. One thing I don't like about Newton is no error checkingor output information. If Irrlciht has a problem it usu tells me. Neton jsut crashes with no explanation. I use dev-cpp which does not have a great debugger so fixing problems with Newton can be very tiem consuming. Again, I haven't used Tokamak orODe so have no idea how they compare with that.

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:45 pm

thnx Electron!

where can I download the sdk? the link in their page doesn't take you anywhere.

Electron · Post by **Electron** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 8:02 pm

Are u talking about the Newton sdk? I have so far been unable to download the latest version, either browsing with AOL or Explorer. Perhaps you are having the same problem as me, but I think not, because I get somewhere, my download just breaks off before it finishes, leaving me with a corrupted .zip.
This is the link to the Newton downloads page, but you've probably already been here http://www.physicsengine.com/downloads.html

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:49 am

The link is working again. I dunno if it's off sometimes. On the other hand I think I opened the page with explorer instead of firefox and the download link worked properly.

try to open the page using Internet explorer and see if the download link becomes active. I downloaded the 1.2 sdk today

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:18 pm

Is the link broken again?
The SDK link links to the same side