PyODE

About

PyODE is a set of open-source Python bindings for The Open Dynamics Engine, an open-source physics engine. PyODE also includes an XODE parser. Like ODE, PyODE may be distributed under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License or a BSD-style license.

Contents

1. News
2. Download
3. Getting Started
4. API Reference
5. Mailing List

News

Download

Packages

These packages have no external dependencies besides Python.

1. PyODE 1.2.0 Windows Installer for Python 2.5.
2. PyODE 1.2.0 Windows Installer for Python 2.4.

Sources

To install a source package, extract the archive and run python setup.py install. See the INSTALL file for information about dependencies.

1. PyODE 1.2.0 .zip archive.
2. PyODE 1.2.0 .tar.gz archive.
3. PyODE 1.2.0 .tar.bz2 archive.

CVS

The latest under-development sources are in our Sourceforge CVS respostitory under the module name "pyode".

Getting Started

PyODE does not wrap ODE's API directly but changes it slightly to give a more Pythonic feel: structures like dBody or dJoint and the functions that operate on them have been merged into classes. See the API Reference for further information.

There are three tutorials which you can read online:

Tutorial 1—The basics.

Creating a world, a body and a simulation loop.

Tutorial 2—Connecting bodies with joints.

Creating a double pendulum and using motors.

Tutorial 3—Collision detection.

Preventing bodies from interpenetration.

The PyODE distribution contains the tutorials source code and other examples in the examples/ subdirectory.

API Reference

You can read the online Epydoc-generated API reference.

Mailing List

For help, you can join the Pyode-user sourceforge.net mailing list.