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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 12:55 pm
by VilleK
That looks very cool! Let me know if you make a video of it running, I'll post it to ZGE's YouTube channel.
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:44 pm
by Rado1
ZgeBullet has been updated to version 1.3 which provides simpler setting of position and rotation for simulated objects/models. Now, you can write simply:
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// update model position and rotation
zbtGetPosRot(BodyId, CurrentModel.Position, CurrentModel.Rotation);
Old versions of related functions were renamed to *XYZ() variants; for example:
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// update model position and rotation
zbtGetPositionXYZ(BodyId, CurrentModel.Position.X, CurrentModel.Position.Y, CurrentModel.Position.Z);
zbtGetRotationXYZ(BodyId, CurrentModel.Rotation.X, CurrentModel.Rotation.Y, CurrentModel.Rotation.Z);
All demos were reworked to the new library version and next ZGE beta/release will contain it as well.
Downloads are available at:
http://googledrive.com/host/0BxwfQ8la88 ... FkycjcxM0k
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:36 pm
by Rado1
As a consequence of Google's announcement to terminate Google Code, ZgeBullet source code repository has been moved to
GitHub.
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:03 pm
by Rado1
I just updated ZgeBullet library to version 2.0. The main changes are:
- updated to the latest Bullet version - bullet3-2.83.5,
- new Ghost object, Kinematic character controller, and a few new constraints,
- API uses xptr to Bullet objects (collision shapes, collision objects, constraints, etc.) instead of previously used integer identifiers,
- some old functions changed signatures,
- several optimizations in function implementations,
- added Doxygen documentation; compiled to .chm help file,
- DLL compiled with Visual Studio 2013
- etc.
See the detailed change log
here.
Download from
here.
Consequences:
- better performance (e.g., 1000 active and interacting physical objects are rendered with ca. 60-70 fps on i7-3630QM 2.4GHz + AMD FirePro M2000)
- backward API incompatibility
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:09 pm
by StevenM
I just updated ZgeBullet library to version 2.0
Awesome!
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:39 pm
by Rado1
Added demo #4 for fast local AABB collision detection based on ghost objects. Download it from
here.
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 10:19 pm
by Imerion
Awesome! This will be fun to try!
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:20 pm
by Rado1
During preparing new physics-based effects for FL-Studio Visualizer, I updated ZgeBullet to v2.1. The main features are:
- Support for multiple simultaneous world simulations.
- Functions for setting position and rotation of rigid body.
- Fixed setting of rotations.
Full version history see
here. Win 32+64 DLLs, ARM shared libraries, help file, ZGE external library file, and demos download from
here.
Re: 3D Physics with ZgeBullet
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:18 pm
by Rado1
As part of preparing a "technology" for my new physic-based 3d space flying game I updated also ZgeBulet to version 2.3. The main motivation was to improve and fix rotations and to use Bullet's internal quaternion coputations instead of having this math in ZGE expressions. Thanks to this, ZgeBullet provides quite comfortable means to simply implement movement of an object (airplane or spaceship) in 3D space.
See
the version history for details. Download ZgeBullet v2.3 from
here. All "official" ZgeBullet demos and FL physic-based effects work. It has already been pushed to ZGE git repo, so next beta release of ZGE should have it included as a built-in external library.
Re: 3D Physics with ZgeBullet
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:42 am
by Barefists
Hi Rado, I've come to bother you on this channel as well, haha!
Is there a way to do collision masking? I'm trying to do a raytest on one particular rigid body to see where I hit it, ignoring all other bodies.
Re: 3D Physics with ZgeBullet
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:11 pm
by Rado1
Barefists wrote:Is there a way to do collision masking? I'm trying to do a raytest on one particular rigid body to see where I hit it, ignoring all other bodies.
Collision detection of objects can be filtered by setting object's group and mask (zbtSetCollisionFilterGroupAndMask). Masking was not working for "normal" raycasting (zbtRayTest), but I today added a new function zbtRayTestFiltered which allows filtering for raycast; simply set group and mask for ray to be collided only with objects for which the filtering matches. Just download the 2.4 Beta version of the library from
here and see the help file for function descriptions. To understand collision detection filtering better, you can see e.g.
http://www.bulletphysics.org/mediawiki- ... _Filtering
In case of further questions... just ask
Re: 3D Physics with ZgeBullet
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 1:27 pm
by Barefists
Thanks! That's really helpful!
Re: 3D Physics with ZgeBullet
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 4:43 pm
by Rado1
I just released next official version of ZgeBullet 2.4 for win32, 64-bit, and Android ARM. You can download it from
GitHub.
I was testing v2.4 Beta for longer time on my projects and there were no problems with it. Release 2.4 contains no additions to Beta, except it is compiled against the latest official release of the Bullet library with latest VS2015 and Android NDK (therefore it is little bit larger
).
Re: 3D Physics with ZgeBullet
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 4:37 pm
by Smags
Rado, I'm working on a midi event triggered bullet physics project that runs in FL Studio. This uses an FL Studio midi out channel to convert midi input in to projectile spheres based on the note and the velocity of the note. Sometimes it works fine and sometimes it doesn't:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rTpLMLczF8[/youtube]
I'm getting an error and some other weird thing is that my bullet physics effect interacts with your bullet physics effects in FL Studio, like they a sharing the same physics world on separate layers. Your bullet physic effects in FL Studio don't have issues like this, so I'm doing something wrong - but I can't figure it out. It's a stubborn error. Sometimes a PC restart doesn't even fix it. Odd thing is sometimes it does start working again.
Here is the error:
- Bullet_Error.png (26.35 KiB) Viewed 36879 times
Here is the project File:
BTW - thanks so much for the Bullet Physics Library - it's awesome.
Re: 3D Physics with ZgeBullet
Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:02 am
by VilleK
Cool stuff Smags! If you can't get it working and Rado1 can't help then please report this problem on the
ZgeViz forums later and I will take a look.