ODE INTEGRATION

LUCA REGINI · Post by **LUCA REGINI** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:47 pm

I have seen that irrlicht integrates quite well with ODE. For the moment i have jsut read the documentation but now i am going to do some experiments. Just for curiosity i am going to make a question anyway:

Irrlicht provide a function to get Trimesh data. What is the efficiency penalty associated with the call of this function? Execution time? Data duplication? Does Irrilicht memorize meshes in a format compatible with ODE's trimesh?

Greets
Luca

Mercior · Post by **Mercior** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 6:41 pm

Just FYI I spent about a month trying to get ODE trimeshes working to no avail. I also found ODE to be somewhat buggy compared to other physics solutions out there.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:34 am

I didn't find any problem at all in compiling ODE with trimesh support.
I don't know of any open source solution that is rich in features as ODE is.

Can u please gimme some pointers??

Greets
Luca

Mercior · Post by **Mercior** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:41 pm

Yes, its easy to *compile* ODE with trimesh support, but try to use them in your program and ODE starts to crash a lot

I think tomahawk is open source.. but it doesnt do meshes either afaik.

www.physicsengine.com - free, but not open source. will do meshes though