Crate nphysics2d [−] [src]
nphysics
nphysics is a 2 and 3-dimensional physics engine for games and animations. It uses ncollide for collision detection, and nalgebra for vector/matrix math. 2D and 3D implementations both share the same code!
Examples are available in the examples2d
and examples3d
directories. There
is also a short (outdated) demonstration video.
An on-line version of this documentation is available
here. Feel free to ask for help and discuss features on
the official user forum.
Why another physics engine?
There are a lot of physics engine out there. However having a physics engine written in Rust is much more fun than writing bindings and has several advantages:
- it shows that Rust is suitable for soft real-time applications
- it shows how well Rust behaves with highly generic code
- it shows that there is no need to write two separate engine for 2D and 3D: genericity wrt the dimension is possible (modulo low level arithmetic specializations for each dimension).
- in a not-that-near future, C++ will die of ugliness. Then, people will search for a physics engine and nphysics will be there, proudly exhibiting its Rusty sexyness.
Compilation
You will need the latest release of the Rust compiler and the official package manager: Cargo.
If you want to use the 2D version of nphysics
, add the crate named
nphysics2d
to your dependencies:
[dependencies] nphysics2d = "0.1.*"
For the 3D version, add the crate named nphysics3d
:
[dependencies] nphysics3d = "0.1.*"
Use make examples
to build the demos and execute ./your_favorite_example_here --help
to see all the cool stuffs you can do.
Features
- static and dynamic rigid bodies
- common convex primitives: cone, box, ball, cylinder
- concave geometries build from convex primitives (aka. compound geometries)
- stable stacking
- island based sleeping (objects deactivation)
- ray casting
- swept sphere based continuous collision detection
- ball-in-socket joint
- fixed joint
What is missing?
nphysics is a very young library and needs to learn a lot of things to become a grown up. Many missing features are because of missing features on ncollide. Features missing from nphysics itself include:
- kinematic bodies
- efficient signaling system
- more joints, joint limits, joint motors and breakable joints.
- soft-bodies (see https://github.com/natal/roft for a draft)
- parallel pipeline
- GPU-based pipeline
Dependencies
All dependencies are automatically cloned with a recursive clone. The libraries needed to compile the physics engine are:
The libraries needed to compile the examples are:
Modules
aliases |
Aliases for complicated parameterized types. |
detection |
Collision detection and joints. |
integration |
Position and orientation update of rigid bodies. |
math |
Compilation flags dependent aliases for mathematical types. |
object |
Rigid bodies. |
resolution |
Constraint resolution. |
utils |
Miscellaneous utilities. |
volumetric |
Volume and inertia tensor computation. |
world |
The physics world. |