I'm working on a web-based 3D FPS game using WebGL, HTML5 and JavaScript. It is supposed to target PCs and net-books with WebGL-enabled browsers installed.
I'm wondering if there's an existing open source 3D physics engine written in JavaScript?
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There are a couple both jiglib and bullet have been ported but it's still very early days. See http://www.jiglibjs.org and http://pl4n3.blogspot.com/2010/11/webglbulletjs-demo.html |
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Have a look at ammo.js: https://github.com/kripken/ammo.js/. It is a port of the Bullet Physics engine. There is also a demo repository for it here: http://schteppe.github.com/ammo.js-demos/. It might help you get started. |
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I don't know about any 3D physics-engine implemented in JavaScript. But maybe you could have a look at the Quake2 > HTML5 port and look how they did it: http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/ From what I understood, they used the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to compile Java-Sources to JavaScript. I think this approach may have some benefits for your project as well, since it's much more likely that you'll find a good 3D physics-engine for Java than for JavaScript. |
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I would take a look at I've used it in a couple of projects and works quite well. It also has nice documentation. |
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While personally I use ammo.js (see schteppe's answer) through Physijs wrapper, I'd also like to mention cannon.js, which is specifically created for JavaScript, unlike ammo.js, which is automatically compiled from C++ to JS. The downside is much less features in cannon.js. JigLibJS which was mentioned by Paul Brunt appears to be unmaintained. |
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cannon.js. It's much faster than ammo.js because it was written in native JS instead of being ported from C++. Unfortunately, its documentation is pretty much nonexistent. |
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