jrouwe/JoltPhysics

Features

• Real-Time Physics Engines - Serves as a high-performance real-time physics engine providing rigid body dynamics and collision detection.
• 3D Physics Engines - Provides a comprehensive 3D physics simulation environment for calculating real-time rigid body collisions and movements.
• Cross-Platform Determinism - Ensures deterministic simulation results across different platforms to support networked synchronization.
• Multi-Physics Engines - Implements a high-performance C++ simulation library supporting both rigid and soft body dynamics.
• Physics Engines - Provides a deterministic physics framework that produces identical results across different architectures.
• Collision Detection - Calculates intersections between physical shapes and objects to trigger physical responses.
• Rigid Body Solvers - Provides a solver for calculating physical interactions and maintaining constraints between rigid bodies.
• Rigid Body Physics Engines - Calculates movement and interaction of rigid physical objects using a high-performance multi-core solver.
• Soft Body Simulations - Implements deformable object simulation for cloth and soft bodies using particle-based dynamics.
• Deterministic State Simulation - Implements deterministic state simulation to ensure identical physics results across different platforms for network synchronization.
• Parallel Solvers - Designed for concurrent execution across multiple CPU cores to handle large numbers of active bodies efficiently.
• Multi-Core Parallelization - Distributes physics updates across multiple CPU cores using a task-based scheduler to maximize throughput.
• Physics-Based Character Animation - Controls physics-driven characters using kinematic keying and constraint motors to match animation poses.
• Friction and Restitution Systems - Provides customizable surface properties to control sliding resistance and bounciness through friction and restitution systems.
• Concurrent Body Management - Utilizes locking and non-locking interfaces to safely manage physics bodies across multiple threads.
• Character Controllers - Provides kinematic and simulated controllers to manage player navigation, including slope handling and stair stepping.
• Broadphase Collision Filtering - Implements spatial acceleration structures to optimize collision detection by discarding non-colliding object pairs.
• Collision Detection Systems - Performs ray casts and shape sweeps to trigger gameplay events or physical responses.
• Continuous Collision Detection - Prevents tunneling of fast-moving objects through thin walls using linear casting.
• Spatial Partitioning Systems - Organizes physics bodies into grids or trees to minimize the number of collision tests per frame.
• Large World Coordinate Systems - Maintains simulation stability over large environments using double-precision coordinate offsetting.
• Multi-Phase Collision Detection - Uses linear casting to prevent fast-moving small objects from tunneling through thin geometry.
• Fixture Shape Definitions - Allows the creation of collision volumes using primitives, complex meshes, and height fields.
• Selective Collision Test Execution - Performs ray casts, shape sweeps, and point-in-shape tests against the world or individual bodies.
• Mechanical Joint Constraints - Links physical bodies using a variety of joints, including fixed, distance, hinge, and slider joints.
• Constraint Motors - Applies forces and torques through constraint motors to achieve specific relative positions and velocities.
• State Rollbacks - Provides snapshot-based state rollbacks to rewind the simulation for network synchronization.
• Coordinate Offsetting - Uses double-precision coordinate offsetting to maintain simulation stability over vast distances.
• Simulation State Serialization - Captures the entire simulation state into binary streams for networking synchronization and frame rewinding.
• Soft Body Physics - Ships a specialized soft body physics library for simulating deformable objects and cloth.
• Vehicle Physics Engines - Includes a specialized vehicle physics system for modeling wheeled and tracked vehicle dynamics.
• Geometric Intersection Calculators - Identifies intersections via ray casting and shape casting to trigger physical responses.
• Character Ragdolls - Provides physics-driven ragdoll simulation using constraints and kinematic keying to match animation poses.
• Physics and Simulation - Multi-core friendly 3D rigid body physics.
• Physics Simulation - Multi-core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection.

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