Manual

The ODE Manual is separated in the chapters shown on the table of contents on the right. The best place to start is the introduction.

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You can also access the whole manual in one single page to quickly search for function names.

The old (from ODE 0.5) manual can be found at http://ode.org/ode-latest-userguide.html . A Russian version of it is at http://ode.org/doc/russian/ .

Here is a short implementors guide for creating new joints in ODE (PDF format).

Related Books

Robot Simulation - Robot Programming with Open Dynamics Engine (Japanese).

In the book "Game Gems 4", the chapter "3.4: Constraints in Rigid Body Dynamics" is a tutorial on creating new joints for ODE.