Chris, this is most excellent! I have a demo activity written in C/C++ that uses the same underlying engine, box2d, and SDL for drawing. I wanted to port it to python, so I spent several hours over the past week trying to use SWIG to make some python bindings for box2d - with minimal success - so I am very relieved to see that this hard work has already been done :)
It should be easy to port the activity over to use pymunx. In fact I've just bundled together a starting point using olpcgames this evening. Here is the C/C++ based one: http://lux.vu/olpc/physics-sdl.xo press 'w' to toggle wireframe for speed press 1, 2 or 3 for different scenes (mixer, piston, pong) click and drag to move stuff around press escape to quit Here is the pymunx-based starting point: http://lux.vu/olpc/physics.xo click to make circles This should give everyone an idea of what sort of frame rates are possible. -josh On Mar 9, 2008, at 7:35 PM, Chris Hager wrote: > Hey all. > > Recently I did some research on 2D (SDL) physic engines, and found > that > one of the most popular (called Chipmunk) with python bindings > (pymunk) > recently got an update. I had a look into it, and am totally amazed :) > The chipmunk engine is easy, stable, fast, fun, open-source -- and now > it's getting really possible to use it with python and especially > pygame. > > To support these efforts I've started writing a little API class > (called > pymunx), to make it even easyier to implement pymunk physics in > pygame. > Screenshots of the examples and a documentation I've put in the wiki: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pymunx > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pymunx/Documentation > > It supports x,y gravity, elasticity, mass, density, friction, > inertia -- > it is possible to draw polygons by hand, ... And it is real fun to try > :) (especially demo6 and demo7). So, long talk little action... let's > have a look now: > > svn checkout http://pymunk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk pymunk-read-only > > This download includes: > - precompiled chipmunk libs > - pymunk bindings > - pymunx api class > - lot of demos > > I think this physics implementation could be interesting for a variety > of purposes. Games (of course), Screensavers, but also for Simulations > and in educational and playful-learning meanings. I'm quite hooked on > playing with demo6 and 7 (elasticity) -- and learned a lot about > physics > in the last days :) > > Any feedback is welcome! > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Games mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/games _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
