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 beginnersKenny Erleben's Ph.D Thesis on Multibody Dynamics SimulationArticle on Sweep-and-Prune collision detection by Pierre TerdimanDr. Jan Bender's page on impulse-based dynamics, with papers and a downloadable libraryClaude Lacoursière's Ph.D Thesis on multibody dynamics simulationAdvanced Character Physics - Thomas Jakobsen (often referenced)Position-Based Dynamics by Muller et alLinks to various papers by David Baraff et al-----------------------------------------------------------Links to other physics directory/resource/wiki/blog sites-----------------------------------------------------------Hardwire's Game Physics ResourcesErin Catto's Physics WeblogChrister 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 7 years, 7 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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