Software for simulating physics like collisions, forces, mass, joints, motion etc. Examples of physics engines are PhysX, Havok, Bullet and ODE.
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Want to develop my own primitive physics engine, don't know how to start with its high-level architecture. Suggestions? [closed]
Few years ago I tried to make a simple 3D game - billiards. Completed like 50%, stuck with physics. Basically, I only need to calculate balls rolling over flat surface, but it would be nice to make ...
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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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Cutting a body in box2d
After cocos2d, I'm looking at box2d... And I have some questions:
I was wondering how to cut a body into pieces.
How do I determine the intersection point of the body with the cut line?
Create a ...
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Problem with impulses in my physics engine
I'm currently developing a small 3D impulse-based physic engine for a CS project. It uses GJK for collision detection and is kind of stable at the moment. Nevertheless, I'm not satisfied with my ...
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JiglibX addition to existing project questions
Got a very simple existing project, that basically contains a lot of cubes. Now I am wanting to add a physics system to it and JiglibX seemed like the simplest one with some tutorials out there.
My ...
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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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Havok physics with a wide range of object scales
So typically Havok works best with normal human sized objects with a gravity of 9.8m/s^2 and dealing with everything in meters.
In my Game though there will be a large variety of scales from ...
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Looking for the reference tutorials for the joints in the Box2D for iphone
I can't find the tutorials of joints class in the Box2D for iPhone. I am unable to run a Testbed for iPhone Box2D.
(void)ccTouchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
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if ...
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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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Advice needed for a physics engine
I've recently started a project, building a physics engine.
I was hoping you could give me some advice related to some documentation and/or best technologies for this.
First of all, I've seen that ...
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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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Physic engine for snooker/billard game [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an algorithm for a pool game?
I think most billard/snooker games have a lot of problems with their physic engines. They are far away from realistic and you ...
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Any fixed-point portable open-source 3D physics engines?
I'm looking for a fixed-point 3D physics engine (basic kynematics and collision detection-resolution... nothing too fancy.)
I need fixed-point math because I'd like to have deterministic results, for ...
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Good open source / free C/C++ engines/libraries [closed]
Since building a game is not about 2D anymore, I just want to build a list of the (not necessarily best, but good enough) open source software available to make games.
I prefer to put emphasis on ...
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gpgpu vs. physX for physics simulation
First theoretical question. What is better (faster)? Develop your own gpgpu techniques for physics simulation (cloth, fluids, colisions...) or to use PhysX?
(If i say develop i mean implement existing ...
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Do any open source JavaScript 3D physics engines exist? [closed]
I'm working on a web-based 3D FPS game using WebGL, HTML5 and JavaScript. It is supposed to target PCs and net-books with WebGL-enabled browsers installed.
I'm wondering if there's an existing open ...
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What other components would one have to combine with Ogre 3D render engine to make a full fledged custom game engine?
I have heard that Ogre 3D is not actually a game engine, rather it is a 3D render engine. I have also heard people claim that one can piece it together with other components (engines?) to create a ...
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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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What's the best open source physics engine to use with JOGL?
I have a past with jbullet but the existing jogl compatible sources and demos seems uncompleted. I have managed to implement it to an extent but still looking for a better documented engine with more ...
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Making a character move along a curved slope in a World with gravity
I have seen this game
Fancy Pants 2 . And the thing I noticed apart from the physics and beautiful animations is that the character is moving along slopes , even curved slopes. I have little ...
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What are the technologies that makes physics engines so good for raycasting?
again. This question is strictly related to this one so, what is the technology that makes physics engines suitable for raycasting? It is a particular data structure? Has it to do with the engine's ...
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Why do we use physics engines for collision testing or raycasting?
There is a thing I don't understand about game engines: why it is so common to use physics engines to do raycasting or collision testing?
Say that you have a 3D scene loaded in your scene manager ...
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Optimizing Bullet and ODE Physics on consoles and mobile phones
I'd like to use either Bullet or ODE on low powered devices (mobile and consoles), but the frame rates are below the acceptable 25-30fps for simulations.
I've found that one articulated body by ...
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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 ...
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Is it possible to use the GPU on a mobile device to accelerate a particle physics engine?
I am interested in answers for any mobile device but I am mainly considering the iPhone and devices that run Java.
I am developing a game that relies heavily on a particle physics engine for core ...
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Realistic Trajectory of a Projectile
When simulating an airplane and a missile, to get them moving in the air we apply a force in one direction. Now an airplane has wings that keeps it afloat while a missile can have fins to stabilize ...
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What are some known 2D/3D physics engines for XNA?
I'm looking for a physics engine to use in an XNA project (2D or 3D). Because it's for XNA, it needs to fulfill some requirements:
Not necessarily free, but close to it is obviously preferred
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