Hi everyone, Here is more or less a copy paste from python-announce, but I thought it might fit in here as well as those using pyglet might be interested in 2d physics in their games/apps and not everyone follows the announce list (I don't).
Im glad to announce that pymunk 1.0.0 have been released, a library wrapping the 2d physics engine Chipmunk. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/pymunk/ What is pymunk? =============== pymunk is a easy-to-use pythonic 2d physics library that can be used whenever you need 2d rigid body physics from Python. It is built on top of the very nice 2d physics library Chipmunk, http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/ Its purpose can be summarized as: "Make 2d physics easy to include in your game" It is (or striving to be): * Easy to use - It should be easy to use, no complicated stuff should be needed to add physics to your game/program. * "Pythonic" - It should not be visible that a c-library (chipmunk) is in the bottom, it should feel like a python library (no strange naming, OO, no memory handling and more) * Simple to build & install - You shouldnt need to have a zillion of libraries installed to make it install, or do a lot of command line trixs. * Multiplatform - Should work on both windows, nix and OSX. * Non-intrusive - It should not put restrictions on how you structure your program and not force you to use a special game loop, it should be possible to use with other libraries like pygame and pyglet. I hope and believe that with the latest release (1.0.0) these points are mostly fulfilled and visible if you use pymunk. Its licensed under the MIT license just as Chipmunk, so everyone should be able to use it. What is new? ============ With this release pymunk has most features I wanted, follows the latest chipmunk version, has quite good api documentation and is fairly well tested and hopefully quite stable. As such I think it's about time the version is bumped to 1.0.0. As this version is updated to include the new features in chipmunk, and also contain at least one breaking change it is not unlikely that it will break your code. On the other hand, now it has the newest callback system (see Space.add_collision_handler), new joints and other cool stuff that will make it easier and more fun to include 2d physics into your program/game :) Changes from the last release: * Vec2d now uses radians instead of degrees for all default angle functions. This might break existing code! * Upgraded to latest chipmunk. This means new system of callbacks and many other fixes * Many unittests added. * Better py3k compatibility (everything except for the setup script should work) * Better 32/64 bit handling * and more /Victor - the main pymunk developer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
