[ODE] generic viewer

[William Denniss]

On 12/10/2004, at 9:20 PM, Shamyl Zakariya wrote:

> It probably wouldn't be too hard to write such a thing on top of 
> drawstuff. You'll basically just have to have a switch statement going 
> over the return value of dGeomGetClass and then call the appropriate 
> drawstuff functions using dimensions extracted from the geom using the 
> class-specific functions.
>
> If you're not concerned with performance or prettiness, this would be 
> only an afternoon exercise of "boring" code! And probably a nice 
> addition to drawstuff, hint hint ;)

We have done this for the Odejava project (http://odejava.org/) - you 
can give it an ODE scene and let it generate the geometry.  Custom 
geometry can also be specified.

My project which mainly uses custom geometry has a debug mode whereby 
the generated geometry is drawn in addition to the custom geometry (so 
I can investigate why things may not be working as expected).

I have also created a generic XODE viewer (XODE is a XML based ODE file 
format) which uses this library.  It can be launched via your browser 
if you have java 1.4.2 or better installed - 
http://tanksoftware.com/xode/viewer/ .  Some basic demos are included.

Cheers,

Will.


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