cpp-cheat/bullet/introduction.md

Introduction

Documentation

Very little besides the Doxygen: http://bulletphysics.org/Bullet/BulletFull/

Good luck.

C API

Bullet is written in C++, and exposes only a C++ API.

A C API has been somewhat considered: https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/issues/130

Android

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6004381/ideas-for-physics-for-rolling-dice
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034253/are-there-any-decent-physics-engines-for-android

2D

TODO: efficient compared to say, Box2D?

• official example classified under experiments in the example browser https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/blob/2.83/examples/Planar2D/Planar2D.cpp
• http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/6130/is-it-worth-it-to-use-bullet-for-2d-physics-instead-of-box2d-for-the-sake-of-lea
• 2D demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsPgMmgsU7E

History

Library creator worked at:

• Havok
• Sony
• AMD (on Bullet)
• Google (on Bullet)

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