[phrontist]

This is going to be solely windows based right?

Do any of you have any experience with this kind of thing? Anyone know anything about Crystal Space? I've done a lot of programming, and this looks out of my leauge. I wish you the best of luck.

My only advice is to stop thinking about FIRST models. That is the LAST step. The best way to write a program, whose type you have no experience with, is to write progressively more complex test programs. First thing I'd do is write a program that lets you move a box around. Make it really workable. The move up to a box with an arm. Then make the arm whack things around. Tune the physics. After you've got the physics down...

You get the idea...