bevy_game_template VS rapier

Thanks also to bevy_game_template, without which Foxtrot would not be possible in the first place :) And thanks to /u/PhaestusFox, who made a video about the template

Seems like you are right - it really is a build.rs problem. I'm using the build.rs from this template, which only sets the icon, and when I remove it it really know not to rebuild when I touch a non-source file, but apparently even if I replace it with a build.rs that only containers an empty main function it still rebuilds when I touch the assets.

Should starting from bevy_game_template and not adding any weird dependencies be enough to ensure that?

From my own experience, I've walked through the Bevy tutorial a few times without getting a ton of traction. On this iteration I'm working harder to explore the examples, of which there are many. I'm playing with this bevy game template to learn more about how a full project might be implemented. I'm learning to approach gamedev with ECS entities as a first-class citizen, which is a concept I haven't really explored before.

Have you seen NiklasEi's template? It's more focused on the assorted project setup (like CI), but it may help you still <3

Ok, so this uses https://rapier.rs/ which is very cool

Rapier, alongside https://nalgebra.org/ (which it uses underneath) has seriously good documentation and some advanced features like cross-platform determinism (something made hard by the way floating point differs between platforms)

Code examples: see examples2d, examples3d-f64 and examples3d directories

What are the pros and cons compared to something like Rapier? When should one use Bevy XPBD instead of Rapier, or vice versa?

Still using Rust in a browser-based multiplayer party game I'm working on! I'm using Actix Web for the backend and rapier2d to handle my game's physics. I'm looking to make some more connections amongst the developer / gaming community through my game down the line.

I have noticed that Rapier 0.17 contains a RopeJoint struct, which constrains maximum distance between two dynamic bodies. It doesn't seem to have found its way into bevy_rapier3d yet so I haven't understood whether it supports (half of) my use case, and looking at the code (https://github.com/dimforge/rapier/blob/master/src/dynamics/joint/rope_joint.rs) I really cannot see how it is actually implemented and how I could extend it to also set a minimum distance, but this may be a place to start.

I was also frustrated with the kcc, so I opened a PR that fixes most of my issues: https://github.com/dimforge/rapier/pull/446

Likewise, see the js bindings of Rapier.

Maybe check out how Rapier does it. Rapier is likely the most advanced physics engine in Rust. (Though Embark Studios is doing some crazy stuff with ML physics.)

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