stable integration of ODE ?

General Discussion
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Hello,

i’m reading that the integration of the ODE physics engine in panda3d is in progress and that the integration will be released with Panda 1.5.3 - but as i can see in the code comment of an actual thread, it seems to be far from being stable:

# the current state of ode (june.08 panda3d v1.5.3) has to be considered testing
# it's easy to crash panda using lots of the used commands used in this sample

Has anybody an idea, about when the first (adequate) stable integration of ODE could be released ?

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Thats in 1.5.3. I think it can be called stable, I think disney uses it for their games already for some time. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
I don’t know why it crashes – maybe because its not fully stable on OSX perhaps?

1.5.3 hasn’t been officially released yet, but it was already tagged for some time – So, I compiled it already, and it can be downloaded here:
discourse.panda3d.org/viewtopic.php?t=4242&start=16

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Any chance the reference for 1.5.3 can be generated pro? I tried porting a PyODE example to panda’s ODE but I have no idea how to get the environment OdeBody.

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You can generate html reference pages using pydoc or panda’s genpycode, or you can go to the python interpreter and type help(SomeOdeClass).

5

Ok, thank you.

I guess, there’s not any documentation/example about panda3d/ode yet ?

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There’s _Hypnos’ thread, which you referred to, and you can also take a look at the PyODE examples, it works similar in panda.

Also, if you need the reference, you can type help(SomeOdeClass) at the python shell.