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Jul 5

Written by: DigitalRune Team
Monday, July 05, 2010 

 

Here is a list of physics engines. This blog entry will be updated from time to time. If you know other useful links, please let us know and we will include them in this list.

General

• 3Impact
  Game engine with dynamics.
• AERO
• AgX Multiphysics Toolkit
• Animats - Falling Bodies
  Ragdoll physics.
• Box2D
• Bullet
  Open source (ZLib license). Is used in Blender. BulletX is a port of Bullet for .NET.
• CarSim, TruckSim, BikeSim, ...
  Software tools for simulating and analyzing the dynamic behavior of motor vehicles (car, truck, bike, suspension).
• Chipmunk Game Dynamics
  For 2d games. Open Source (MIT license).
• CHRONO::ENGINE
  Free for non-commercial use
• Darwin2K
  "Free, open source dynamic simulation and automated design synthesis package for robotics."
• daVinciCode
  2d library developed under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Trinkle. 3d version is in development.
• DynaMech
• DynaMo - Dynamic Motion library
  Open source (LGPL)
• endorphin - Dynamic Motion Synthesis
  Character animation/synthesis with physics. From NaturalMotion.
• Flade - Flash Dynamics Engine
  Open source actionscript 2.0 library for simulating 2D physics using Verlet integration
• Havok
  Havok Physics and Havok Animation are free for PC game development – thanks to Intel.
  Related links: XnaHavok - Havok for C# and XNA
• Impulse-based dynamic simulation (IBDS)
  Jan Bender’s library
• JigLib
  A physics engine experiment based on the paper "Non-convex rigid bodies with stacking". JigLibX is a direct port of JigLib for XNA.
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
  The Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware
• Newton Game Dynamics
  Free, but closed source.
• ODE - Open Dynamics Engine
  Open source. Related links: The unofficial ODE Forum, ODE Wiki, Car Simulation, KODE ODE Editor
• Open Physics Library
• OpenTissue
  Open source (LPGL)
• PGNX Physics
  “is probably the first fully unified physics engine and can simulate any phenomena from quantum physics to realistic video-game interactions.”
• PhysicsAndMathLibrary
• Physsim / Moby
  Open source (GPL)
• PhysX
  Formerly from AGEIA – now from NVidia. Free for commercial and non-commercial PC projects. Supports GPU hardware acceleration. 
  .NET wrappers: .NET wrapper by Jason Zelsnack, PhysX-sharp, physxdotnet
• Pixelux Digital Molecular Matter
  Integrated Physics with Material Destructibility and Fracture
• Pulsk
• Rigs of Rods
  Rigs of Rods (also known as RoR), is an Open Source truck, car, airplane and boat simulator.
• SD/Fast
  Computes equations of motion for articulated rigid body systems.
• Simple Physics Engine
  Free for non-commercial use
• Simul-X
  Advanced vehicle dynamics middleware software library for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Add-on for Havok/PhysX.
• SOFA – Simulation Open Framework Architecure
• Springhead
  Open source software toolkit for virtual environment development.
• Tokamak Game Physics SDK
  Open source (BSD)
• True Axis Physics SDK
  Free for non-commercial use
• Vortex
  From CMLabs

Abstraction Layers and Wrappers for Physics Engines

• Gangsta Wrapper
• OPAL - Open Physics Abstraction Layer
• pal - Physics Abstraction Layer

Physics Engines for .NET and the XNA Framwork

• BEPUphysics
  3D physics engine designed specifically for the XNA Framework
• BulletX
  is a port of Bullet for .NET.
• Farseer Physics Engine
  2D physics for XNA
• Henge3D
  Henge3D is a 3D physics library written in C# for XNA. It is implemented entirely in managed code and is compatible with the XBOX 360.
• Icarus
  XNA physics engine, also discussed here.
• JigLibX
  is a direct port of JigLib for XNA.
• Jitter
  Fully managed 3D physics engine, written by the author of JigLibX.
• Matali Physics
  Fully managed 3D physics engine for NET and XNA 3.0. Available for Windows and Xbox 360.
• Physics 2D
  C# 2D physics engine
• Physics2D.Net
  C# 2D physics engine. A complete rewrite of Physics 2D.
• Rigid Body Physics Engine
  C# student project

.NET Wrapper for C/C++ Engines

• Havok: XnaHavok - Havok for C# and XNA
• PhysX: .NET wrapper by Jason Zelsnack, PhysX-sharp, physxdotnet

Outdated Links

These links/projects seem to be outdated, broken or dead:

• Bytegeist Vehicle & Physics SDK
• DefColStudio
  Framework for soft bodies.
• FastCar
  Simple vehicle and multi-body simulation.
• HyperMatter
• Motorsport
  Simulation of wheeled vehicles. Open source (GPL).
• meqon
  Was acquired by AGEIA in Sept. 2005.
• NovodeX
  Now AGEIA PhysX Now NVidia PhysX
• nV Physics SDK
• RenderWare Physics

History

2010-07-05 – Updated links. Moved several old links to “Outdated Links”. Created separate section for Wrapper and .NET/XNA links.