[ODE] new user

[alaysamhak@aol.com]

Hello All, I just recently subscribed to the mailing list, just wanted to say hello. I would like to use ode to design a robot. I would like to see if this robot can learn to walk, by applying certain forces to multiple joints at each time step, and see if I can compute the end velocity of the entire body. This is mainly for a thesis I'm working on. Do you recommend I use ode? if not are there other options?
 
-ALso I'm having trouble getting started, I'm pretty good at programming in c++, however, I typically have problems getting started with the software, configuring everything. I went to the website and I downloaded binary releases for windows, since I'm most comfortable with windows. However I get this ode-0.5.tar file, I tried opening it in microsoft visual studio 6.0, however, it seems like it can't read the file. Can someone help me get started, let me know what kind of software and development environment I need to use?
 
ALso to be able to draw the spider it seems like i need opengL, where can I get it from and how do i configure it with ode?
 
Thank you very much in advance,
 
-Bill
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