[ODE] Using ODE in Doom 3

[Geoff Carlton]

I agree.  However there are two points to think about.

Doom3 had lame physics in their game (an occasional box that could fall 
over).  I don't know what the underlying physics system is like, it is 
possible that the engine can do far more impressive things than the 
"vanilla" effort of Doom3.  It would be worth looking through the Doom3 
code to see if it indeed can handle what you want before trying to 
integrate another physics engine.  Sidenote:  Did they roll their own, 
or use own of the existing commercial physics libs?

Also, if you are doing a TC and heavily using physics, then I'd consider 
going for HL2 instead.  This game shipped with Havok, which is very 
expensive and very good, and is already networked (see HL2DM).  You're 
not going to get anywhere near as good results with Doom3 and ODE, 
period.  Of course, this is out of the scope of the question, and maybe 
those Carmack shadows are more important than lots of gravgun toilets 
flying around the map. :-)

Geoff


John Miles wrote:

> In my opinion, yes, it's feasible.  Doom 3's physics subsystem was 
> pretty unexceptional.  While playing the game, I remember thinking 
> that there was absolutely nothing going on that ODE couldn't handle.
>
> It'll take some heavy-duty tweaking, though.  By the time you get ODE 
> working in Doom 3, your statement about not having much experience 
> with physics and game development will no longer be true. :-)
>
> -- jm
>
>> I'm not really impressed with the pysics engine from Doom 3 so far. 
>> We are
>> developing a total conversion mod for this engine and now I'm looking 
>> if we
>> can replace the physics with another one.So I wonder if I can get some
>> opinions if this could work as I don't have much experience with 
>> physics and
>> game development.
>>
>> -- 
>> Gerhard Gruber
>>
>> Für jedes menschliche Problem gibt es immer eine einfache Lösung:
>> Klar, einleuchtend und falsch. (Henry Louis Mencken)
>>
>>
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