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Calculating buoyancy force

I am trying to simulate a buoyancy force for objects submerged/suspended in a fluid in a 2D environment. According to Game Physics: Engine Development: How to Build a Robust Commercial-Grade Physics ...
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Swarm/crowd movement with box2d?

Apart from using b2Body::setTransform(), are there other ways to move a body around while keeping its dynamics ? I want to move several bodies at the same time into one direction, pretty much like ...
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Fluid Particle Grid

So recently I have been looking at some fluid simulation techniques, specifically Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. One of the key components is a grid to avoid O(n^2) searches. I have been having some ...
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Stopping an object after applying an impulse or force?

I'm having a small issue where after applying an impulse or force it is impossible to actually get an object to stop, i.e. a velocity of zero. This code is run every 1 / 60 of a second: void ...
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What is the difference between an impulse and a force related to a physics engine?

What is the difference between an application of an impulse and an application of a force in relation to a physics engine?
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Determining the angle to fire a shot when target and shooter moves, and bullet moves with shooter velocity added in

I saw this question: Predicting enemy position in order to have an object lead its target and followed the link in the answer to stack overflow. In the stack overflow page I used the 2nd answer, the ...
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Implementing Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) and Minimum Translation Vector (MTV)

I was following codezealot's tutorial on SAT and MTV and trying to implement it myself but I've come a cropper when it comes to getting the correct MTV. Here is my example: (Cue pretty pictures...) ...
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Debugging Minimum Translation Vector

I implemented the minimum translation vector from codezealot's tutorial on SAT (Separating Axis Theorem) but I'm having an issue I can't quite figure out. Here's the example I have: As you can see ...
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Box2D high-level c++ wrapper

Is there a high level wrapper around Box2D out there? I know that the library isn't exactly very low level as-is, but in my opinion some things in the library could be made more intuitive at the cost ...
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Game Physics With RK4 Implementation For A 2D Platformer

I been reading about RK4 for physics implementation in a game, so I read in some pages and all people recommend me this page: http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/ This page shows ...
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How do I set up moving platforms in a 2D side scroller to interact with the player properly?

Edit: I changed the way that gravity was applied so that it is applied even when a player is standing on a block, so instead of the game outputting that you are stepping on a tile as true and false ...
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2D physics library that supports curved surfaces and inverse or boolean shapes?

I've been using box2D for a few months, but I now badly need a physics library which can use boolean shapes (ie; cutting a circle out of a square) and/or curved surfaces. Does anyone have any ...
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Homemaking a 2d soft body physics engine

hey so I've decided to Code my own 2D soft-body physics engine in C++ since apparently none exist and I'm starting only with a general idea/understanding on how physics work and could be simulated: ...
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2D soft-body physics engines?

Hi so i've recently learned the SFML graphics library and would like to use or make a non-rigid body 2D physics system to use with it. I have three questions: The definition of rigid body in Box2d is ...
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Determining player.isFalling() through change of y?

I'm currently using Box2D and my character is a bunch of fixtures in Box2D. I was wondering if, to determine if a player is falling, detecting a change in Y position would be appropriate? Are there ...
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2D Gravity and jumping

I have a gravity handler that works pretty well: //If gravity is active: //Iterate through all subscribers and have them fall //by the GRAVITY_VALUE modified by the subscribers gravity modifier. ...
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Quad tree vs Grid based collision detection

I'm making a 4 player co-op r-type game, and I'm about to implement the collision detection code. I've read a lot of articles and stuff about how to handle collision detection, but I'm having a hard ...
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2D AABB collision response

I'm making a simple platformer, and I wanted simple collision handling. So I gave all my objects an AABB hitbox and tried to resolve collisions. However, I can't get it to work. My main character has ...
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How can I copy or back-calculate definitions for an entire b2World?

I'm working on a platformer where I'd like to be able to move or copy bodies between multiple Box2D b2Worlds. The desire has cropped up three times now - moving objects between documents in my editor, ...