4 posts tagged with "physics"

Editor 2.32 is out, and it leads with something that has been a long time coming: the Joint component. Hinges, sliders, ball joints, springs and breakable welds are now things you configure in the inspector rather than assemble from a script.

There is more to it than that. Materials get ray-marched parallax occlusion, the render component gets per-cascade shadow control, text elements can finally justify, and the Gaussian splat LOD controls have been reworked.

This is also the first of what we intend to make a regular thing. Plenty has shipped in the Editor over the past year without ever being written up, so from here on we will be posting about Editor releases far more often — shorter posts, closer to the release, instead of waiting for one big enough to justify the effort.

The PlayCanvas WebGL game engine integrates with ammo.js - a JavaScript/WebAssembly port of the powerful Bullet physics engine - to enable rigid body physics simulation. We have recently been working out how to extend PlayCanvas’ capabilities by using soft body simulation. The aim is to allow developers to easily set up characters to use soft body dynamics.

Here is an example of a character with and without soft body cloth simulation running in PlayCanvas:

RUN FULLSCREEN

Today, we plugged a magical Leap Motion device into one of our USB ports and fired up PlayCanvas.

Last night I presented at the London HTML5 Game Dev meetup. As usual we had an awesome time and if you're based in or around London then you should definitely try and get along to the next one.