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Game Physics Cookbook

You're reading from   Game Physics Cookbook Discover over 100 easy-to-follow recipes to help you implement efficient game physics and collision detection in your games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123663
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gabor Szauer Gabor Szauer
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Vectors FREE CHAPTER 2. Matrices 3. Matrix Transformations 4. 2D Primitive Shapes 5. 2D Collisions 6. 2D Optimizations 7. 3D Primitive Shapes 8. 3D Point Tests 9. 3D Shape Intersections 10. 3D Line Intersections 11. Triangles and Meshes 12. Models and Scenes 13. Camera and Frustum 14. Constraint Solving 15. Manifolds and Impulses 16. Springs and Joints A. Advanced Topics Index

Physics System Update

Now that we have a way to generate collision manifolds for colliding objects and a way to apply impulses to rigidbodies, we must make some modifications to the physics system to actually use these features. Most of this work will consist of modifying our physics loop, but we also need to add a few class variables.

As we are applying gravity to objects resting on each other, we might experience sinking. Sinking simply means that objects that should rest on top of each other sink through each other. We can fix this using Linear Projection. To perform linear projection, when a collision has happened, we will move both the objects a little along the collision normal. This slight adjustment to position will fix sinking problems for now.

We will update our physics loop to perform the following steps:

  • Find and store pairs of colliding rigidbodies
  • Accumulate forces acting on the rigidbodies
  • Apply impulses to resolve collisions
  • Update the position of every rigidbody
  • Correct sinking...
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