• Mason Green (11/11) Feb 17 2008 The Blaze Development Team is proud to present:
• Bill Baxter (5/23) Feb 17 2008 Pretty sweet!
• Clay Smith (7/36) Feb 17 2008 Yes, this probably should be mentioned. We're currently using the latest...
• Tom S (5/5) Feb 17 2008 Awesome! I'll definitely check it out when doing some 2d stuff :D
• Clay Smith (25/43) Feb 17 2008 License: zlib/png license

Mason Green <mason.green gmail.com> writes:

The Blaze Development Team is proud to present:

Blaze: A light-weight, 2D rigid body dynamics engine, based loosely on the
Glaze, Chipmunk, and Box2D projects. Blaze's goal is to implement a real time,
continuous collision detection, and physics game engine library.

Implemented: Sequential Impulse (SI) solver, stacking, non-convex models via.
partitioning and covering.

To do: Joints, continuous collision detection, and much more!

This project will serve as a stable physics game library, and maintain a
branch for experimental, bleeding edge development.

Project home: http://www.dsource.org/projects/blaze

~Mason Green (zzzzrrr)

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Mason Green wrote:
 The Blaze Development Team is proud to present:
 
 Blaze: A light-weight, 2D rigid body dynamics engine, based loosely on the
 Glaze, Chipmunk, and Box2D projects. Blaze's goal is to implement a real time,
 continuous collision detection, and physics game engine library.
 
 Implemented: Sequential Impulse (SI) solver, stacking, non-convex models via.
 partitioning and covering.
 
 To do: Joints, continuous collision detection, and much more!
 
 This project will serve as a stable physics game library, and maintain a
 branch for experimental, bleeding edge development.
 
 Project home: http://www.dsource.org/projects/blaze
 
 ~Mason Green (zzzzrrr)
 

Pretty sweet!

You might want to also mention that it requires Tango.
(fromUtf8z needs to be changed to fromStringz in RunDemos.d for SVN tango)

--bb

Clay Smith <clayasaurus gmail.com> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 Mason Green wrote:
 The Blaze Development Team is proud to present:

 Blaze: A light-weight, 2D rigid body dynamics engine, based loosely on 
 the
 Glaze, Chipmunk, and Box2D projects. Blaze's goal is to implement a 
 real time,
 continuous collision detection, and physics game engine library.

 Implemented: Sequential Impulse (SI) solver, stacking, non-convex 
 models via.
 partitioning and covering.

 To do: Joints, continuous collision detection, and much more!

 This project will serve as a stable physics game library, and maintain a
 branch for experimental, bleeding edge development.

 Project home: http://www.dsource.org/projects/blaze

 ~Mason Green (zzzzrrr)

 
 Pretty sweet!
 
 You might want to also mention that it requires Tango.
 (fromUtf8z needs to be changed to fromStringz in RunDemos.d for SVN tango)
 
 --bb

Yes, this probably should be mentioned. We're currently using the latest 
stable release of Tango for DMD 1.024.

This project will remain Tango only, unless a phobos developer wants to 
jump on board and add and keep up to date the correct version statements 
required to make it run on phobos, too.

~ Clay

Tom S <h3r3tic remove.mat.uni.torun.pl> writes:

Awesome! I'll definitely check it out when doing some 2d stuff :D


-- 
Tomasz Stachowiak
http://h3.team0xf.com/
h3/h3r3tic on #D freenode

Clay Smith <clayasaurus gmail.com> writes:

Mason Green wrote:
 The Blaze Development Team is proud to present:
 
 Blaze: A light-weight, 2D rigid body dynamics engine, based loosely on the
 Glaze, Chipmunk, and Box2D projects. Blaze's goal is to implement a real time,
 continuous collision detection, and physics game engine library.
 
 Implemented: Sequential Impulse (SI) solver, stacking, non-convex models via.
 partitioning and covering.
 
 To do: Joints, continuous collision detection, and much more!
 
 This project will serve as a stable physics game library, and maintain a
 branch for experimental, bleeding edge development.
 
 Project home: http://www.dsource.org/projects/blaze
 
 ~Mason Green (zzzzrrr)
 

License: zlib/png license

Blaze Documentation: 
http://svn.dsource.org/projects/blaze/downloads/docs/blaze05/blaze.dynamics.RigidBody.html

Blaze Demos for Windows: 
http://svn.dsource.org/projects/blaze/downloads/Blaze-Demos.zip

DSSS install instructions...

dsss net install blaze
dsss net install blaze-demos

The blaze demo only requires SDL.

The reason we decided to call it Blaze, is that it is already pretty 
darn fast and we haven't even optimized it, yet.

I've created a stable branch for Blaze which is the branch that will be 
downloaded through DSSS.

It's kind of interesting how this port came: Box2D Lite inspired 
Chipmunk, which added some speed and stability and non-convex polygons 
to Box2D Lite, and Chipmunk inspired Glaze to make an object oriented 
physics engine on a modern programming language, Action Script 3. Both 
Mason and I were surprised how similar Action Script 3 is to the D 
programming language.

Both Mason and Glaze author Richard plan to add more features to the 
engine, and will also benefit from further features added to Chipmunk.

My job in the process is to make the development process a little bit 
smoother.

~ Clay