The Gangsta Wrapper Thread

monster · Post by **monster** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:03 pm

Ooh, what's this? Three stack of crates with different stickers on them. All running in the same application? OgreOde reaching a watershed release? Hmm, interesting. Or maybe not. Can't say more. Here's some screen shots.

SpannerMan · Post by **SpannerMan** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:09 pm

Lol, monster your such a tease!

That cant possibly be the three different physics libraries running at the same time, can it? Are they interacting? Can an ODE box bounce off a Newton box etc?

Post by **Kencho** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:28 pm

Monster, you rule...

8)

bal · Post by **bal** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:02 pm

Oh my god, this sounds so awesome.

Post by **:wumpus:** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:05 pm

Hehe, you seem to be having the same problem with box stacking I've always had with Ode.

Very cool idea though! congratulations

Xinc · Post by **Xinc** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:01 pm

haha brilliant! If that really is an app running 3 different physics libs then, dare I say.. PWN! Very nice work Monster, you've done it once again.
And once again Ode has failed in stacking cubes

As you can see, ode doesn't "stack up"...
I would definately like to see ode distributed in optimized packages for various categories of games. But thats another topic

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:10 pm

is this the new ODF binding?!

That would be seriously cool

Post by **sinbad** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:21 pm

Box Stack Wars? Intriguing...

Tenttu · Post by **Tenttu** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:41 pm

Would be nice to see how the newcomer trueaxis works in a similar situations, or how it works overall compared to those

Post by **DWORD** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:23 pm

If this is what it looks like, then it's so awesome and original!

DarkSun · Post by **DarkSun** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:41 pm

wow! just incredible

Slicky · Post by **Slicky** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:59 pm

I am guessing that the boxes don't interact between the different systems. If they did then you would have to be continually updating the other systems boxes in the current system.

psyclonist · Post by **psyclonist** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:42 am

Making several different sims run at the sime time isn't hard, but making them interact would be hard (especially in the tuning and tweaking and stability field).

@monster: Good work!

-psy

monster · Post by **monster** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:35 pm

Hmm, True Axis you say?

psyclonist · Post by **psyclonist** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:56 pm

Slicky wrote:I am guessing that the boxes don't interact between the different systems. If they did then you would have to be continually updating the other systems boxes in the current system.

@monster: You still didn't answer that question

-psy

charlie · Post by **charlie** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:18 pm

Wow, that looks really, really great...............

Can't wait to know the trueth behind those top secret spy shots

TobascoSpam · Post by **TobascoSpam** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:01 pm

I don't think the physics engines are interacting with each other, you can see a few boxes from one of the other engines clipping through Newton's boxes. That is still very cool to see all of those together in one simulation though.

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:19 pm

Aye, as you can see in this "enhanced" picture, there are no inter-engine reactions going on.

Still uber cool

TheGilb · Post by **TheGilb** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:35 pm

Wow monster, what a great idea! Now OGRE users can pick and choose which physics lib suits their application best! Honestly, that is really cool. Especially for physics numb-skulls like myself

Now all we need is the open AI framework, and the open multiplayer framework to roll out and into ogre

Great work - can't wait to get my hands on the first release

dorvo · Post by **dorvo** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:31 am

Just looking at all that box-falling goodness makes me realize just how inadequate my skills with physics are. *sob* Those look really cool, by the way.

Post by **jacmoe** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:39 am

Downloaded True Axis yesterday - looks really, really cool !
It claims that it's made for speedy games - and it's good C++ code/classes ...
On my old machine it is way faster than Newton and ODE, but what do you think? Is it any good?

monster · Post by **monster** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:40 am

psyclonist wrote:
Slicky wrote:I am guessing that the boxes don't interact between the different systems. If they did then you would have to be continually updating the other systems boxes in the current system.
@monster: You still didn't answer that question

-psy

/me hides

PeterNewman · Post by **PeterNewman** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:24 am

That looks really good Monster. Running four different physics sims, at once! Obviously its pretty quick to bind in a new simulation, judging by your speedy come-back.

Although I have a side question.. why are physics demo's mostly collision based, very few/little demonstraction of joints and constraints, which are the coolest part, IMHO. Just a request for future shots/demos. Can't wait to see it.

/me hides monster at his house, practically down the street (then down the highway, then off along a side road, then... ok, not so down the street)

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:32 am

THe only downside of TrueAxis is its price tag, $5000 aus for a commercial license, support included. They are workign on a special shareware license too, but i hvaen't heard any details about it

RyanN · Post by **RyanN** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:38 am

nice! can't wait to get my sticky hands all over it.......