Re: [Pyode-user] Initial (re)design questions

[Bernie R. <br...@ec...>]

At 04:49 PM 6/24/2004, Matthias Baas wrote:
>How do we get to the mesh data when using a particular 3D engine? Which 
>engines are available from Python?

I'm working on a wrapper for Ogre (www.ogre3d.org), but my guess is that 
the vertex and triangle data will be available as simple C arrays of floats 
and ints respectively in almost any engine.

>>>6) double vs float. What type do we use?
>>Can't we just change the typedef for dReal, and rebuild with the 
>>appropriate version of ODE?
>
>Will the trimesh support (or rather, Opcode) work if doubles are used?

I think the trimesh support will have to convert floats into dReals.

>>>8) Shall we try to implement an XODE import/export in Python?
>>I've been trying to find information about XODE, and have had no luck.
>>Am I just looking in the wrong places?
>
>Here are all the revisions of the spec:
>
>http://tankammo.com/xode/

Thanks!

>So unless someone of you would like to use Leo I'd rather remove the markup.

That was the first thing I did when I downloaded PyODE.  :-)

>Another thing is, I'd rather like to split the Pyrex file into several 
>smaller files as currently it has over 2600 lines which is a rather big 
>chunk (back then, a Pyrex file could not include other Pyrex files, but 
>now this is possible).

I'm open to that, but I don't think it's a big problem either way.


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