From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2010-05-26T01:59:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a 3D physics engine

AFAIK no 3D physics engine has fully fleshed out bindings into Ruby. I would highly recommend you look at existing free engines (like Bullet, Newton / PhysX, and ODE) and look into building a Ruby wrapper for them much more than building one yourself.

I've had long-term plans of building such a wrapper. If you do start into this I'd love to follow your progress / help out with this.

Jason

On May 25, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Marc-antoine Kruzik wrote:

> Chipmunk seems to be a pretty cool 2D physics engine, but does a 3D
> physics engine exist for Ruby ?
> 
> I would like to develop an Alundra-like game :
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuAHsje2SY
> 
> I developed a very simple 3D physics engine by myself some years ago,
> but I lacked the mathematics competencies.
> Here's a poor sample of what I have done :
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74186_factory-13-enigme-plateformes_videogames
> 
> 
> Maybe it could help : I don't need rotations.
> When the player kicks a box, the box slides on the ground and can go
> down a slope, but it never overturns.
> 
> 
> If there are no 3D physics engine, I will try to create a basic one from
> a 2D engine, such as Chipmunk.
> 
> --
> 
> So :
> 
> 1- does a (simple) 3D physics engine exist for Ruby ?
> 2- if no 3D engine exists, which 2D engine do you recommend me to make
> what I want ?
> 
> Thank you for your answer.
> 
> 
> (I'm french, sorry for my mistakes.)
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