Open Dynamics Engine

Open Dynamics Engine
Basic data
developer	Russell Smith
Publishing year	May 8, 2001
Current  version	0.14 ( December 18, 2015 )
operating system	platform independent
programming language	C / C ++
category	Physics engine
License	BSD license
www.ode.org

A simple vehicle drives over a ramp.

A collision of several objects.

The Open Dynamics Engine ( ODE ) is a free C / C ++ - library that for simulating the body dynamics in the virtual reality is used.

The physics engine is considered to be fast, powerful, robust and flexible and has an integrated collision query . It is being (further) developed by Russell Smith and a number of companies. Thanks to the BSD license (optionally also available under LGPL ) it is used by many games and commercial closed-source programs. Examples of commercial programs are 18 Wheels of Steel: Full Speed , BloodRayne 2 , Call of Juarez ( Ubisoft ), OMSI - The Omnibus Simulator , Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl , Titan Quest and World of Goo .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bitbucket.org .
2. ↑ Open Dynamics Engine - license

Web links

• Bitbucket: ODE project page
• (Old) website of the Open Dynamics Engine (English)
• Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) Community Wiki (English)
• A port from ODE to Java (English)