Win32, OpenGL and ODE Physics

ODE Physics Tutorials

ODE is a physics library that allows you to add realistic physical behavior to the objects in your virtual worlds. ODE stands for Open Dynamics Engine and was written by Russell Smith as an open source project. My ODE examples were compiled using the free Dev-Cpp compiler available here.


Hi all. Happy new year!

I know I've been AWOL for a long time, which in my case stands for Away Working Off Line. I'm not flipping burgers but it certainly isn't an IT based job. It just pays a wage and is coincidentally helping me lose a little weight, which after so many years of working on the computer is something we all have to keep a check on. I am still working on my own projects from time to time but the website is a low priority now. I hope that the last tutorial helped people get started with Qt v4.3.0 and discover the fine QDevelop utility but there may not be a follow up to that tutorial. My new years resolution is to do a major rebuild of this site and to get rid of that unsightly wiki at the bottom of the pages which are so easily spammed. I'd also like to release a few more tutorials some time in the year but there isn't the incentive or drive that there once was. One of the reasons is that the whole graphics and game development scene has inevitably lost that exciting atmosphere that it once had. I'll touch on this more in my end of year report as well as put forward a few of my personal ideas.

Those that have had a look at the old news page may also think I've stopped paying attention to the shadow governments, globalization and the many other major conspiracies like 9/11, but I still keep abreast of what is happening. I just don't think this is the right forum for such discussions. So another resolution of mine is to start a new website which focuses solely on these issues. Though I just can't help but share another document with you which discusses the Doomsday Seed Vault in the arctic. It is being funded by Bill Gates so it is not entirely off topic. What is most striking, and pure hypocrisy, is that the others funding this seed bank are major GMO seed producers like Monsanto, DuPont and Hi-Bred. And of course, behind any notable conspiracy you'll find the Rockefellers.

Well not all truths are uplifting, but I'd rather be informed than blissfully ignorant. I hope you feel the same way. If you want to experience a real kind of peace try simply turning off the television. The internet is interactive and you can select from so much more than the mindless propaganda coming from the commercial stations.

That's about it for now, take care and I hope you have a wonderful and rewarding new year.

Alan Baylis thegood@australia.edu

Hi All

I've been taking some time off from the site, as a sort of holiday, but it's good to be back. I've also been working towards creating a terrain editor using the marching cubes algorithm which is keeping me busy. I don't know when it will be completed but in the meantime I will be releasing a series of tutorials on using the Qt C++ toolkit. I've decided to upgrade to the latest version which is still a beta release, though there should be a full release any day now.

To begin the tutorial series I thought the best place to start was with an installation guide. If time permits the next tutorials should follow quickly. They will cover the basics of using Qt with an external IDE called QDevelop, and progress up to creating a full GUI with an OpenGL widget. So until then...

Click here to go to my first Qt Tutorial

Alan Baylis thegood@australia.edu