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Ball Collision with ODE and OpenGL


This is a ball colliding with an unseen surface, using ODE and OpenGL. Took a lot of time to get my head around ODE because there are no good tutorials or simpler sources to learn from.

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You need to install the following(Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
sudo apt-get install libode-dev

For other OSs install ODE by source, I’d recommend you to keep on to gcc.

g++ -o ball ogl.cc -DdDOUBLE -lGL -lGLU -lglut -lode