[ODE] Beginner's question

[Chris Royce]

Well here is my 2 cents.....

I'd stick to a birds eye view for the simulation of various games, rather 
something along the lines of champ man. Obviously ode would offer extensive 
advantages should you wish to simulate a game accurately but that would 
involve constructing the avatars, which would need controllers and somehow 
need to be programmed so that they could perform various manoeuvres.

Like I said sure it can be done, but I certainly wouldn't be easy, but then 
anything worth doing never is...

Just my opinion :D

Cheers

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mariusz Czulada" <manieq at wp.pl>
To: <ode at q12.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:26 PM
Subject: [ODE] Beginner's question


> Hi all!
>
> I am thinking about creating a volleyball simulator. Precisely: a 
> web-based
> online  manager, where where matches can be viewed via browser as an
> animation. I see a few big parts in this project:
>
> (1) Match simulation engine - teams, players (skills), tactics as input;
> detailed sequence of events (ball movement, players actions: serve, block,
> etc.) as output; players' AI, ball physics, volleyball rules - inside "the
> black box".
>
> (2) Visualisation - Flash (or Java?) animation/applet/application which 
> will
> "visualise" data stream created by engine above.
>
> (3) Web site - where you can manege your team, tactics, training, 
> transfers,
> play/view matches etc. - just like in many other managers.
>
> My question is related mostly to (1). As experienced developers, do you 
> think
> that ODE is/could be useful in such project? Can I benefit from this 
> library
> (i.e. for ball moves, colisions)?
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
> Regards,
>
> ManieQ
>
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