How to implement 3D Physics Engine?

General
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I’ve went through some tutorials for 3D and learned how to do OpenGL now in XoJo pretty well. I’m at the point where I want to implement a 3D physics system. I’ve heard of the newton library but not sure if this is the best for this, or how to even integrate that into XoJo. Where is a good place to start? Is there a good 3D physics engine I can use?

Box2D I think only does 2D physics so I’m not sure if that will work for 3D?

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To implement an engine, you find a framework in another language that makes sense to you and you try to port it to Xojo. Or you do a lot of studying and write one of your own. Either way, you’re in for a LOT of time, start with 2D, it’s complicated enough. And yes, Box2D, as the name suggests, is for 2D.

I started a Box2D port last year, but ran in to a wall I couldn’t knock down.
http://bigdaddysurf.com/blog/?p=578

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You could also search on www.amazon.com for “programming 3d games” or “programming 3d” and you will find lot of books explaining the issues. Unfortunately not by using Xojo.

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A 3D physics engine is part of the roadmap of Xojo3D.com, but won’t be ready anytime soon.

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Here is a very good article about writing your own physics engine (try out the JavaScript examples… they look great)…

How Physics Engines Work

and one of the examples in action…

http://www.xojo3d.com/rigid.htm

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Thanks very much for the articles I’ll be reading that all today. Much appreciated!