BulletPhysics for GLBasic... first preview! :)

[backslider]

Hi guys,

if you love physics in 3D games, but you don't know how to implement it...
I'm writing a BulletPhysics - wrapper library for GLBasic, so you can use it without much physics knowledge!

I don't know when I will publish the lib and the functions for glbasic, but it won't take too long, I think!

In the demo are 625 falling boxes (only on Windows PC! Later for iDevices etc., I hope! ).

Cheers

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[Ian Price]

Nice

[Kitty Hello]

oh. cool. I can make my CogWork game for iOS then.

[Schranz0r]

 

[Crivens]

Excellent. Hopefully will be fast enough on mobile devices (any chance of Android and WebOS?)! Out of interest on the most simple of levels would this allow decent collision detection for complex 3D objects?

Cheers

[matchy]

 

[bigsofty]

Wow, should be great. 

I've used Bullet on iOS via iXors in the past, even compiled the static lib via GLB but it sucked ass on the iPhone. I don't think that it was Bullets fault though, the version that was used in iOS was not optimised for the platform at all and I've seen other iOS bullet examples run fine since then.

[Crivens]

it sucked ass on the iPhone

Hopefully the newer version works better!

Cheers

[erico]

Really great! chances of a video?

[backslider]

Excellent. Hopefully will be fast enough on mobile devices (any chance of Android and WebOS?)! Out of interest on the most simple of levels would this allow decent collision detection for complex 3D objects?

- Bullet should be fast enough on iOS I think, but we will see.
- It should work on Android and WebOS if it works on iOS.
- At the moment you can only create simple bodies like a box, sphere, cylinder, cone and a capsule but Bullet itself supports complex models! So yes, in the future it should work with complex 3D objects! Maybe I will write a DDD-Import Function, so you can load your glbasic models directly. But first I have to check how to implement complex meshes!

Really great! chances of a video?

In the first post is a demo program... Maybe I will record a video later.

Cheers

[erico]

I tried it, looks wondeful.
Could you update the demo to have user controlled camera? like left/right/up/down all targeting center + zoom in/out?

Sorry the request, I´m just way excited by it.
The video would be more like a ´show the world´ kind of thing, don´t bother.

That + shadows and I would piss my pants...

[backslider]

I tried it, looks wondeful.
Could you update the demo to have user controlled camera? like left/right/up/down all targeting center + zoom in/out?

Sorry the request, I´m just way excited by it.
The video would be more like a ´show the world´ kind of thing, don´t bother.

That + shadows and I would piss my pants...

That should be possible!
I will do it later at home and update it.

[erico]

thanks backslider...that ought to be seen closer!
congrats for the work!

I tried changing the texture to diferent ones but it seems each cube is square mapped by that,
Idea was to get the colors of the glbasic logo there and... would ask " can anyone spot where it landed ´correctly´?"

Like I said, I´m quite excited by it, too much bullet tests on blender on this side...

[Crivens]

Bullet should be fast enough on iOS I think, but we will see.

Crossing everything I have for that one! I mean it doesn't need to handle 600+ falling cubes, but fast enough for a simple enough game would be awesome!

It should work on Android and WebOS if it works on iOS.

Nice. Sounds great if it all works out! Keep up the good work!

Cheers

[bigsofty]

- At the moment you can only create simple bodies like a box, sphere, cylinder, cone and a capsule but Bullet itself supports complex models! So yes, in the future it should work with complex 3D objects! Maybe I will write a DDD-Import Function, so you can load your glbasic models directly. But first I have to check how to implement complex meshes!

Couldn't X_GETFACE be used to extract the mesh data, rather than write a full importer?