[tuhopuu-devel] Kesterji is closer, but still no cigar

[Patrick]

Hi kester, great work so far and the ODE implementation.  It's gotten 
considerably better since Norman Linn's good start.  I've been playing 
around with it, trying to see if I can make it run my game (Crescent 
Dawn) but it still is missing some things.  I'm notsure if you are still 
actively working on it or not?  I know you were discouraged that no one 
has done anything with it, I totally understand how rough it can be to 
go things alone.  Anyway, here are a few things I noticed:

No text?  For some reason the bitmap fonts don't work anymore.  I'm not 
sure if this is because of ODE or if it was something that happened in 
tupohuu.
Some python functions not affecting physics: It seems like there are 
quite a few python functions that don't affect the ODE physics.  The one 
that I noticed was object.suspend/restore dynamics.  They apparently 
have no effect.  I'm not sure about others, but some possible candidates 
are ray.getHitPosition(), ob.getVelocity(), 
collision.getHitObjectList().  I'll look into it some more, but the 
missing text didn't make much sense to me...

Anyway, I'm looking to help, I'm not sure what I can do (Im a coder, but 
very inexperienced).  I'll start by trying to compile tupohuu (again), 
its a bit difficult because Im on windows.

I'll probably be asking more questions in the next few weeks on where 
things are, and how/where I should contribute.

I do think that kesterji is really only a few updates from being at 
least as usable for games as 2.25 is, with some cooler physics :)

Saluk