ODE vs. Tokamak
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| Which is better, and why? |
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| A lot of professional game engines are using ODE. 'Stalker:Shadow Of Chernobyl' is one example. http://www.stalker-game.com/index_eng.html Click-on the 'Engine' section and scroll down a bit. The problem with ODE seems to be the complete lack of documentation. I can't find any beginner tutorials, function descriptions, etc. Regards, Rogue Vector |
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| I tried both and prefferred Tokamak, but thats maybe because Tokamak has some good documentation. I had some problems getting ODE to run stable, but that could just have been me. However, in the end I have stopped using Tokamak and have done my own simplified physics!! There were just too many 'uncontrolled variables' in my project for my liking. |
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| Well, I would prefer ODE, but the actual wrapper is not finished and it has that bad "freezing" problem after a few minutes, which make it impossible (to me) to use it in Blitz. I'm now integrating Tokamak to my game, but not for the whole game, just for a few effects in certain areas ... and until now, it seems to be that toka is hard to set-up but then it works pretty much stable ... Paolo. |
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| I have limited experience in ODE and a bit more in Tokamak, for me ODE always seem to react in slow motion and I dnot know how to effect a change to this. Tokamak appears better documented and even though I am a novice Josh, remember the sewer racers I sent you!? I think that was pretty unplayable because of the speed of turning, I had frame limited the demo. Tokamak is a well tried stable system and is working quite well un Blitz I would say. Although there was a flurry of progress in ODE recently it has been a long long long time in coming. Tokamak is due to go to version 2 soon I think I heard somewhere too, so what that means for Blitz users I don't know. I would say the best people to answer this question are: Sweenie, Bot Builder and people on the PlayerFactory forums. IPete2. |
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| IPete2, if you would like to experiment with the speed problems you're having in ODE. Have a play around with the 'ODE_dWorldQuickStep 0.1' setting. This controls the speed of the physics stepping. Hope this helps, although what the future holds for the ODE wrapper is at the moment a mystery. |
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