http://www.bulletphysics.com/

Please consider replacing ODE with Bullet. Bullet also is an open source physics engine (zlib license) but it is more actively developed and has more features.

ODE is kind of lacking because it only fully supports boxes and spheres as collision shapes (the rest of the ODE shapes like cylinders aren´t complete) and it isn´t really stable enough (explosions happen too often and too easily!).

Bullet at Morbius: http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202604#Post202604

Please cehck it JCL.

Yes,please consider replacing ODE with Bullet or any good physics engine

Newton would also be great. I'm not really happy with the built-in ODE-physics and vehicles. Netwon 2.0 ist WIP and it seems that it will have a lot of even more features.

Yes I would like

http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/wordpress/download

and not ODE or Netwon (well maybe Netwon).

i am for newton 2.0 once it is out. the betas look awesome already. some gamestudio competitors like quest3d use newton too.

...but almost anything would be better than ODE.

I am for newton 2.0, too. i think n 2.0 would be 100 times better than the bullet physics.

What do you think about PhysX? That's the library with the biggest players behind it.

yes physx, with the cloth simulation, (also particles physx?)

I don´t really like PhysX.

I wouldn´t want to release a game which needs a 20mb physics driver. Bullet or Newton only add a few 100KB to your exe.

PhysX also is lacking in some regards. For example it also doesn´t support cylinders! Maybe because PhysX (previously Novodex) is based on the unfixable ODE? :p But now that it is owned by Nvidia maybe it will become better?



I find it really surprising that engines like Bullet and Newton aren´t very different (in some regards they even are better) to engines of the big players like Ageia or Havok. What are those teams of PhD programmers doing all day if single programmers like Erwin Coumans or Julio Jerez can compete with them?