An OpenSim API introductory tutorial

This is an OpenSim API introductory tutorial. You can find the tutorial files in the src/ folder along with the solutions. In the doc/ folder, you can find a short presentation introducing C++ basics.

Pre-requirements

Windows

For Windows users please make sure to install the following:

• Install OpenSim v4.1
• Microsoft Visual Studio (MVS) and C++ compiler. Please note that during the installation of MVS the C++ compiler will not be installed by default. You have to install the Visual C++ build tools. No need to install any optional package such as Windows 10 SDK, etc.
• Install CMake GUI
• Install Rapid Environmental Editor
• Optionally, you can install Python 3.x so that we can use OpenSim's API with Python. This will not be required for this example, but is very useful.

Linux

Check the build_opensim-core and BUILD_OPENSIM.md if you want to build opensim-core from source on Ubuntu or on Linux with some modifications to the building script.

Mac

• Install OpenSim v4.1
• Install g++, cmake and cmake-gui

Acknowledge

If you find this useful you can acknowledge it as follows:

@misc{opensim-api-tutorial,
  author = {Stanev, Dimitar},
  title = {An OpenSim API introductory tutorialSim},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  url = {https://github.com/mitkof6/OpenSim_API_tutorial}
}

No worries, I do not mind not being acknowledged. Most of the things presented here are based on things available on SimTK and the user-guide. I hope I will have more time to improve and provide more examples.