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Realistic 2D Planetary Physics Engine?

I'm doing a spaceflight simulator in C++ (using Allegro 5), and I realised that I could just use a physics engine instead of writing my own physics. So that's what I'm doing. Since this is going to ...
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Moving Sprite With Physics Frame

Normally, a physics frame in pink (see image below) gives the body for detecting hit signal. It usually either falls down or lifts up depending on the gravity orientation. The question is: Is it ...
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limiting jump forces to achieve a maximum jump height [duplicate]

A player and the world are modeled using a physics engine. Jumping is modeled by applying a vertical upward force to the player's physics body when the jump button is pressed. The upward force is ...
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Resolving a collision with forces

In my 2D physics engine, I can detect AABB vs AABB collisions, and resolve them by finding the shortest penetration vector and adding it to the AABB's position. Doing this "pushes" the first AABB ...
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An “AABB Physics Engine” [closed]

I've been working on the physics for my 2D game and for the past two weeks it's been doing my head in. I wanted something a little more complicated than what you see in 2D platformers, but I wanted to ...
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What physics engine support force fields and bodies represented as points?

I need a game engine that supports force fields in 2d or 3d, but suitable for 2d calculations, like bullet. Each body I want to simulate is represented as a set of points. Each point has positive ...
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RK4 integration and Continuous Collision Detection

I'm using this method to detect collision between two AABBs. The algorithm is simple, fast and works great. It uses the relative velocity between the two objects to calculate TOI. This works fine with ...
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How do engines avoid “Phase Lock” (multiple objects in same location) in a Physics Engine?

Let me explain Phase Lock first: When two objects of non zero mass occupy the same space but have zero energy (no velocity). Do they bump forever with zero velocity resolution vectors or do they ...
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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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Physics System ignores collision in some rare cases

I've been developing a simple physics engine for my game. since the game physics is very simple I've decided to increase accuracy a little bit. Instead of formal integration methods like fourier or ...
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How can I make my main character move in a parabolic arc when jumping?

I'm entering Android game development, and I already have a computer version of a game I want to publish. The thing is, I want to make this as good as it can be. With that said, I need a physics ...
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How to implement physical effect, perspective effect on Android

I'm researching about 2D game for Android to implement an Android Game Project. My project looks nearly like PaperToss. Instance of throwing a page, my game will throw a coin. Suppose that I have a ...
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How to pin a body in case of collision in Box2D or Farseer?

I'm trying to get an understanding for the Box2D/Farseer physics engine by implementing a small air hockey simulation. There, I have the problem that the CPU player attacks the puck, kicks it, but ...
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2D games on Unity and collision detection performance

I'm developing a 2D game for the iOS platform. I have seen a lot of packages on asset store that makes 2D asset creation for unity easier. I have narrowed my selection to just 2, 2d toolkit and ex2d. ...
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How to make a 2D Soft-body physics engine?

The definition of rigid body in Box2d is A chunk of matter that is so strong that the distance between any two bits of matter on the chunk is completely constant. And this is exactly what ...
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Need help with collision detection/resolution in a 2D simulation of 'worm-like' creatures

(originally posted this on regular stack overflow, somebody pointed this forum out :-) ) Hi there, I'm implementing a physics engine for the simulation of worm-like creatures. Problem is, is that ...
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Converting 2D Physics to 3D

I'm new to game physics and I am trying to adapt a simple 2D ball simulation for a 3D simulation with the Java3D library. I have this problem: Two things: 1) I noted down the values generated by the ...
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Finding the point of collision

I'm writing a 2D rigid body simulator. The objects being simulated are convex polygons. My question involves how to decide on the "point" of collision, so that when I apply a response force, I can ...
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How to build a bones animation engine?

I want to develop a flash game. It would draw a stick man, and edit his pose. I think what I need to learn are bones animation and physics engine. Can anyone introduce some good resources to learn ...
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How do I build a 2D physics engine? [closed]

The most advanced games I've made are a 8-ball pool game made with the physics engine Box2dFlashAS3 and a platform game with levels. When I did platform games, I've always wished to know how to make ...
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which is the best physics engine for flash as3?

i am a game programmer and i use actionscript to do all my collision checking, boundary checking etc...but recently i noticed there are things called "physics engines" that help me concentrate more on ...