SIP - SimpleIrrPhysx

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:18 am

I was really bored so I decided to make a Nvidia Physx wrapper for Irrlicht...unfortunately my tiny little brain couldn't stand all constant crap being shoved into it, so I didn't figure out how to load meshes

But I did, on the other hand, make a (VERY)simple physx wrapper which just uses boxes and spheres(smgr->createBoxSceneNode(), etc..) with a REALLY simple API.
My goal wasnt it to make it feature rich(well actually it was my initial goal, but that changed when I failed to load meshes

), but to make it extremely easy to use. You don't even need to know anything about the Nvidia Physx SDK to use it, just be kinda familiar with Irrlicht.

This obviously cant be used for most game types, but if you want to make some sort of minigame or whatever this could be useful.

Download v0.1
Mirror 1
Mirror 2

this SHOULD work on any platform that supports both irrlicht and Nvidia Physx, but if your using anything other than Windows, you'll have to manually build the examples

you don't need to give me credit for this..its not that great, but just don't say you made it

btw, if anyone manages to add mesh loading for this I'd be happy to post it here and give you full credit.

yamashi · Post by **yamashi** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:55 am

Well it's not the best way to do it imo...
You should take a look at irrPhysx and you will see that he doesn't need to use getNode() or anything like that because he uses inheritance (which is what irrlicht does as well).

wing64 · Post by **wing64** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:13 am

Great job grumpymonkey. Keep walking i will wait for next version of SIP.

Brkopac · Post by **Brkopac** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:05 am

yamashi wrote:Well it's not the best way to do it imo...
You should take a look at irrPhysx and you will see that he doesn't need to use getNode() or anything like that because he uses inheritance (which is what irrlicht does as well).

Inheritance isn't always the best way.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:30 am

this is cool i'm looking forward to it!

JP · Post by JP » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:57 am

Certainly sounds nice and simple for quickly getting set up for simple physics but have you looked at the Physx licence? I've got a feeling you're not allowed to hide away the Physx libraries from the user... though that sounds a bit odd to me know thinking about it because that's what the end user effectively does... maybe it was just the DLLs you can't hide away... or maybe i'm making it all up!

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:19 am

crap I gotta look into that then o.o

JP · Post by JP » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:30 pm

Yeah there's certainly some important stuff to take into account there. I think you certainly need to credit Physx either in the application or readme file of any application using Physx... I put logos into all the apps of mine that use it but I don't think a logo is a necessity.

aanderse · Post by **aanderse** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:30 pm

you should always read the license first! (though iirc physx has pretty reasonable licensing for a split open source/proprietary license)

DeM0nFiRe · Post by **DeM0nFiRe** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:31 pm

IIRC Physx says you need the logo in the opening splash screen, the logo in any about texts in the application AND a certain phrase in any documentation (That certain phrase is in the license, I forget what it was)

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:48 pm

ok well I added a link to the license in a comment on the code, and I put the Physx By Nvidia logo up there.. Its a start, but I'll try to make it better by adding a download instead :\

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:02 pm

ok I think I resolved the legal errors..hopefully I wont get sued

I added a download with source code and 2 examples with docs..

I'll try to add joints into the next version