\t\t\t\tI expected to get a lot done today but I’ve been sick so progress is pretty slow. Anyway, I’ve been looking at physics engines. I found 3 right away: ODE, Tokamak, and Newton Dynamics.<\/p>\n
ODE was my first pick but the included projects wouldn’t compile. Faced with potentially several hours of getting it to work, I checked around and it didn’t seem like anyone was using it. The project has not been updated for a year and a half. So as much as I like open source I moved on to Tokamak.<\/p>\n
Tokamak looked very promising from the webpage. But on download they only offer DLLs.<\/p>\n
Newton Dynamics looked competent and the projects compile. The documentation is about what you’d expect for a free library, if you had low expectations. The samples are interesting but much less impressive than what I’ve seen in commercial libraries. This isn’t necessarily a failing of the engine though. I like that in the documentation the author points out the same principle that I follow: an API is supposed to be a black box. He demonstrates his principle in the distribution – there is only one header file and you have your choice of DLLs or static libraries.<\/p>\n
As usual it took a significant amount of trouble to get my behemoth of a solution compiling. Total time spent was only about an hour though, which is far better than certain other libraries.<\/p>\n
When I feel better I’ll be back to try out some physics in action.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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