Physics Simulation Forum

Hi forum,

I am quite new to physics simulation. Does this engine deal with only polygonal representation of the arbitrary shape for collision detection or use particles to represent the shape ?

If there are support for shape representation using particles, i am eagerly looking forward to the some references with this API .

Thanks
Sajjad

My understanding is that polygonal shapes are handled using Gimpact, as far as I understood, it's a polygonal library and very good at it.
No idea what you mean by "use particles to represent the shape".
Particle systems are soft bodies. But I don't think it's a good idea to use Bullet for particle system animations if that's your need. Feel free to elaborate.

While going through the following chapter of gpu gems 3

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGem ... _ch29.html

I came to the following excerpt from the chapter:




According to their description, they are doing the collision detection check with sphere particles instead of the whole rigid body which is itself is made of particles.

Looking forward to more on this issue.


Regards
Sajjad

Thank you very much, that's very interesting. You might also want to look at the "cascades" demo. There's a GDC paper about it and a chapter on GPU gems 3 as well. Somehow I cannot pinpoint them right now as developer.nvidia.com appears to be down.
Anyway, this kind of representation is probably not as useful for CPU based solution. It's a rough approximation for GPUs.