pyode

Compiling ODE on windows without Visual Studio (for PyODE)

I'm new to compiling programs written by someone else, so I hope I'm not missing anything obvious. What I am really trying to do is install PyODE, and I think I managed that just fine, but when running the PyODE examples I get an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python26\pyode-examples\tutorial3.py", line 12, in <mo...

pygame vs. VPython for visualizing PyODE

I made a program similar to the second PyODE tutorial but using VPython instead of pygame and I removed the coord function for changing coordinates. It works but the locating of the spheres and joints isn't correct. I am guessing that it is because I am using the PyODE world coordinates within VPython. Would this in the circumstance I de...