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I recently stumbled upon GameClosure, but I found out it doesn't have physics [closed]

GameClosure: http://www.gameclosure.com/ I really like the engine, the debugging, and the code style in general. However, it doesn't have a built-in physics engine. It says here: ...
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Collision detection logic

Edit 2 In the following picture sprite1 (the red square) is hitting the platform from the left, so: sprite1_rightEdge>platformSprite leftEdge would be true, so I can simply reposition ...
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How can I manage large numbers of objects in a physics engine? [duplicate]

MY friend and I are programming a game and I decided to give the physics engine a try. I was able to get a class working where it would calculate out the total force on a model and apply the correct ...
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How is 'mass' handled in video games?

Mass is one of the basic scalar quantities, which is required in most rigid body physics calculations. Does every, EVERY, object which moves in a game get mass defined in the code, or is it allotted ...
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Progressively loading the racing arena in a 3D driving sim

I need advice and resources on a 3D car simulator. I want to progressively load the track for the player as I'm thinking of porting the game to mobile devices. This seems too difficult to me as I'm ...
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Sharing data between graphics and physics engine in the game?

I'm writing the game engine that consists of few modules. Two of them are the graphics engine and the physics engine. I wonder if it's a good solution to share data between them? Two ways (sharing ...
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Help with Collision Resolution?

I'm trying to learn about physics by trying to make a simplified GTA 2 clone. My only problem is collision resolution. Everything else works great. I have a rigid body class and from there cars and ...
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Game physics / 2D Collision detection AS3

I know there are some methods you can use like hittestPoint and so on, but I want to see where my movieclip colliedes with another another movieclip. Any other methods I can use? by any chance does ...
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Will my game engine be compatible with physics engines?

My engine supports Scene handling, Cameras, and has a Renderer. Also, it has a class called Drawable, which has the position, the shape and the picture of an object. The picture property has width, ...
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How can I stop my Jitter physics meshes being offset?

I'm developing a C# game engine and have hit a snag trying to add physics. I'm using XNA for graphics and Jitter for physics. I am trying to split the XNA model into it's meshes, then create a ...
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I am looking to make a spaceship tilt as it corners but I cant get it to return

I am using the TL game engine I am not allowed to use a physics engine but I need to make the spaceship lean as it corners, I can make it lean but cannot make it return to its starting position. I ...
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Is there a standard way to store 3D meshes to easily communicate between libraries?

In a 3D game lots of different systems need to know about geometry data, however the only way they seem to be able to agree to on in representing it by an array of triangles. Can anyone recommend a ...
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Collision detection in 3D space

I've got to write, what can be summed up as, a compelte 3D game from scratch this semester. Up untill now i have only programmed 2D games in my spare time, the transition doesn't seem tough, the ...
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Effects of collisons: broken glass, damaged cars, how are they created?

My question is related in particular to achieving the effects of collision in game engine, how is this done? I have searched a bit, read from the internet and went through a few tutorials, and saw ...
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iphone 3d library with physics

are there any light 3d iphone libraries that must have: Physics ( ragdoll physics ) 3D scene graph Advanced lighting (lightmapping and stuff) Sound engine Ability to import 3D model from blender, 3d ...
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How do engines like Unreal relate to OpenGL or D3D?

Well I'm completely completely new to computer graphics and even more to game development. I am searching info and all that stuff to have the basics quickly. But there's a big question mark in my ...
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How'd they do it: Destructible environments in BF:BC2 and BF3

How did the folks at Dice create the destructible environments in the more recent Battlefield games? Did they just assemble the buildings out of predefined sub-regions that break apart when there is ...
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Physics engine recommendation which can simulate pool game correctly?

I'm making pool game like game. This game requires correct (or very accurate) reflective bounces. I tried Box2D and Bullet Physics, but they have this problem. If there is a wall on top of this ...
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Approximating walking physics via simpler sliding physics

I am modeling walking insects. I implement them as cuboids and use forces (including friction and drag), to control motion. However, the movement characteristics of this 'sliding box' physics don't ...
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Development platform for 2D web and mobile games

Is there a game development platform -- similar to Torque, or Unity -- which can be used to deploy 2D games on the following platforms: Web iOs Android Xbox Live Arcade (Preferred but not required) ...
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Fundamental physics component(s) in component-based game engine

What are the "smallest" physics components in your component-based game engine? Would it make sense to create something like Positionable, Rotatable, Movable, Collidable and combine them the way you ...
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Pretty open source game/rendering engine?

It might be outside the domain of open source (as there isn't much in the way of open source games that would want/need to implement all these) but is there an existing open source game or rendering ...
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Open Dynamics Engine

Has anybody used this library before? What were your experiences? Pros/Cons?
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Fixed time step vs Variable time step

What is better for games when developing game loops, fixed time steps or variable time steps? What type of games are better with one or the other? Variable time steps: With variable time step, I ...