List of physics engines and reference material (updated 7 March 2011)

grhodes_at_work · 2017-06-20T20:41:33

Someone suggested that it might be useful to have a sticky list of physics engines and reference material available here (for convenience...the info is all available elsewhere). So, I am giving it a try.This thread is not for discussions. It is simply meant to contain links to commonly-requested information. I'll leave the thread open for contributions, but I will remove anything that is remotely off topic or tangential. Add links, but do not discuss! -------------------------------------------------Commercial Physics Engines (usually written in C++)------------------------------------------------- Note that most of these have license options that are attractively priced for indie and hobby developers. Havok (3D, free for non-commercial and inexpensive commercial PC games, fee-based for games above a price limit, non-game applications, and consoles. Download available from Try Havok.) NovodeX (see Ageia PhysX) Ageia PhysX (previously NovodeX, now NVIDIA PhysX) NVIDIA PhysX (previously Ageia PhysX) (3D, free for PC-based games, free for PS3 through Sony pre-purchase, fee-based for other consoles)Oxford Dynamics (3D, vehicle sim - appears to be dead...) Digital Molecular Matter (DMM) from Pixelux Entertainment (3D, fee-based licensing) SPE Simple Physics Engine (3D, free for noncommercial, fee-based for commercial) Chrono::Engine (3D, free for noncommercial use, fee-based for commercial) True Axis (3D, free for noncommercial, fee-based for commercial with a reasonable indie license option) Gino van den Bergen's SOLID collision detection library (3D, fee-based for commercial, open sourced for GPL/QPL projects) SimVex - (previously simul-X) Addon library for Havok enabling game-quality vehicle creation of any configuration, cars, motorcycles, aircraft, etc. CarX - CarX is a car physics engine for AAA racing games. (3D,C++,fee-based licensing) -------------------------------------------------Open Source and Freeware Physics Engines------------------------------------------------- Bullet (3D, open source Zlib license) Open Dynamics Engine (3D, open source BSD license) Box2D (2D, open source permissive Zlib license) Tokamak Physics (3D, open source BSD license - Sourceforge Link) Newton Game Dynamics (3D, custom free-use license) JigLib (3D, open source Zlib license) Chipmunk (2D, open source unrestrictive MIT license) Open Tissue (various, open source Zlib license) ------------------------------------------------------------XNA-Compatible ports------------------------------------------------------------ JigLibX - XNA port of JigLib (previously JiggleX) Bullet for XNA ------------------------------------------------------------Other ports------------------------------------------------------------ JigLibFlash - port of JigLib to Flash via ActionScript 3 ------------------------------------------------------------"Abstraction Layers" that support multiple physics engines------------------------------------------------------------ Open Physics Abstraction Layer - OPAL (is this dead?) pal -------------------------------------------------Technical References (most are quite advanced)------------------------------------------------- Tutorial presentation materials on game physics from GDC (Essential Math) A good starting point for beginners Kenny Erleben's Ph.D Thesis on Multibody Dynamics Simulation Article on Sweep-and-Prune collision detection by Pierre Terdiman Dr. Jan Bender's page on impulse-based dynamics, with papers and a downloadable library Claude Lacoursière's Ph.D Thesis on multibody dynamics simulation Advanced Character Physics - Thomas Jakobsen (often referenced) Position-Based Dynamics by Muller et al Links to various papers by David Baraff et al -----------------------------------------------------------Links to other physics directory/resource/wiki/blog sites----------------------------------------------------------- Hardwire's Game Physics Resources Erin Catto's Physics Weblog Christer Ericson's Real-Time Collision Detection website (companion to his book) David Eberly's Geometric Tools website - home of the Wild Magic game engine as well as numerous technical articles and useful code

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Started by grhodes_at_work December 12, 2007 10:56 AM

13 comments, last by MobilityWins 6 years, 10 months ago

komires

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July 17, 2012 11:21 AM

Also Matali Physics (cross-platform, commercial physics engine, free for use in non-commercial games)

MobilityWins

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June 19, 2017 05:36 AM

this might be a dumb question, but for the open source bullet physics engine, is there a capability of merging the engine with Unity as well?

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MrRowl

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June 19, 2017 08:53 PM

15 hours ago, MobilityWins said:

this might be a dumb question, but for the open source bullet physics engine, is there a capability of merging the engine with Unity as well?

A quick search came up with this so it looks like it's been done. I don't use Unity so can't offer any opinion on it, though.

Why do you think Bullet would be better than PhysX (that's not a loaded question - just interested!).

MobilityWins

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June 20, 2017 08:41 PM

23 hours ago, MrRowl said:

A quick search came up with this so it looks like it's been done. I don't use Unity so can't offer any opinion on it, though.

Why do you think Bullet would be better than PhysX (that's not a loaded question - just interested!).

Oh I don't really know, I just was curious on how people go about working with multiple engines, what benefits there are.

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