[tuhopuu-devel] questions about ODE support and Plug-Ins

[Joschka Boedecker]

Greetings !

I have some questions concerning the current ODE support and the Plug-In 
capabilities in blender. I apologize if this is not the right list to post 
these questions to, but maybe someone here could point me in the right 
direction.

I am writing this on behalf of a few developers who are researchers in the 
RoboCup domain. Currently, a new simulator for RoboCup's Simulation League 
is under development, using ODE for physics simulation. While looking over 
some slides at the ODE website, we learned that ODE support would currently 
be integrated into blender. The slides were made in 2002, so we were eager 
to find out how far these efforts have gotten until now. It would be nice 
to be able to use blender to set up the 3D models for the simulator and at 
the same time being able to edit their physics properties for ODE. Is 
something like that possible in the current (or soon to come) version of 
blender ?

As a second step, we would like to export the geometry and the physics 
properties information to an XML file. Could a Python Plug-In be used to 
this end ?

I looked at the ChangeLogs in the CVS repository and at several postings in 
the forums on blender.org, but that was a little confusing. It seems that 
currently, there are three different game engines under development, one of 
which is supporting ODE, but I'm not even sure of that.

Any help on these topics would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,

Joschka Boedecker