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NovodeX is pleased to participate in the Open
Dynamics Framework effort, recently launched to the public at physicstools.org. For those who haven’t seen the
project yet, the Open Dynamics Framework is an open-source toolkit
that is very useful for integrating physics support into applications
such as demos, game engines, authoring tools, and visualizations. The ODF doesn’t provide an actual
simulation engine itself; rather it sits on top of a physics
implementation such as the NovodeX Physics
API, and provides
services such as file translation, a data object model, and a scripting
mechanism. The ODF utilities can
be used with any physics engine, but we hope that you will find it a nice
complement to the features of the NovodeX API.
NovodeX Rocket is a demo suite that unlocks the potential of the NovodeX Physics
API. We
have built NovodeX Rocket by customizing the source code of the ODF Rocket project, freely
available at the physicstools.org site. An important component of Rocket and ODF is PSCL, a powerful physics scripting language. With Rocket you can quickly prototype many of your physically-based gameplay ideas within a high-level environment,
rather than spending your valuable time writing ad-hoc demos. NovodeX Rocket comes with an extensive set of scripts highlighting fundamental
features of the underlying NovodeX Physics
API, as well as creative examples of physics
content in a game environment. The Rocket application is freely downloadable (14 Mbytes, click on the Rocket picture or link
below), and you can build your own version by combining the ODF Rocket project with the NovodeX Physics API, which is available free
for non-commercial use from this website: just click here to get
started with NovodeX today.
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