odejava startup problem - no display window?

Game Mechanics
#1

Hi, hope someone can help me - i’m sure its something simple.
I’m trying to get some odejava development running using Eclipse.
I can run the examples in the test package ok, but they don’t open a window or bring up any visual display of the world.
They don’t crash and I get logger output in the console so it seems to be running but there’s just nothing to see.

Do I need the Xith3D jar? I’ve got the odejava-xith3d.jar in my project path, is that just a wrapper for some more libraries that I don’t have?

Thanks for any help.

#2

ODEJava itself does not display anything. You need another library for that (e.g. LWJGL, JOGL, Xith or jME).

There are Xith examples, yes, but these are in the odejava-xith module. You need to run classes from that module.

  • If you would like to use Xith, it has a physics abstraction layer you should use.
  • If you would like to use jME, there’s an extension called jME Physics 2.
  • If you would like to use other 3D libs / engines… well… learn them and ODEJava first :-\