Box2D
HPX
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0.0 | 9.8 | |
about 1 month ago | 1 day ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
MIT License | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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Box2D
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Blaze: A High Performance C++ Math library
For typical game physics engines... not that much. Math libraries like Eigen or Blaze use lots of template metaprogramming techniques under the hood that can help when you're doing large batched matrix multiplications (since it can remove temporary allocations at compile-time and can also fuse operations efficiently, as well as applying various SIMD optimizations), but it doesn't really help when you need lots of small operations (with mat3 / mat4 / vec3 / quat / etc.). Typical game physics engines tend to use iterative algorithms for their solvers (Gauss-Seidel, PBD, etc...) instead of batched "matrix"-oriented ones, so you'll get less benefits out of Eigen / Blaze compared to what you typically see in deep learning / scientific computing workloads.
The codebases I've seen in many game physics engines seem to all roll their own math libraries for these stuff, or even just use SIMD (SSE / AVX) intrinsics directly. Examples: PhysX (https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX), Box2D (https://github.com/erincatto/box2d), Bullet (https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3)...
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Jolt Physics raylib: trying 3D C++ Game Physics Engine
Box2D: 2D engine used in Unity and also earlier versions of Godot. Open source.
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Rust Game Physics Engines: PhysX, Rapier, XPBD & Others
Box2D GitHub repo: erincatto/box2d
- Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
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Linear code is more readable
Why is 600 lines too long? How are you able to make that judgment call without first knowing what the algorithm is even doing? People setting arbitrary limits like this is what leads to convoluted spaghetti, instead of just taking things on a case by case basis. Here’s a function from the Box2D code running a particularly complex algorithm for solving contact velocities https://github.com/erincatto/box2d/blob/411acc32eb6d4f2e96fc... .
It’s 310 lines long. It reads very well, and it looks very maintainable. It has very clear comments explaining the reasoning behind the harder parts of the code. Would you reject this code because it’s pretty long? I wouldn’t.
There is no such thing as too long or too short. There’s overengineered and there’s underengineered and there’s a sweet spot in the middle that has the perfect amount of engineering with the least amount of complexity (preferably no additional complexity than the original problem warranted). Sometimes, the problem at hand is inherently a large algorithm and requires many lines of code. Don’t split it up! It just makes it harder for future maintainers who now have to figure out if the additional functions are actually being used elsewhere or if they’re just there to make the code “pretty”.
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How would you implement a simple collision system?
There is always the approach of looking at how an existing engine is implemented, such as box2d: https://github.com/erincatto/box2d
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C++23: The Next C++ Standard
TIL Box2D must not be serious code because it doesn't use copious amounts of explicit temporaries[0].
And just for the record, I'm very glad Erin Catto decided to use operator overloading in his code. It made it much easier for me to read and understand what the code was doing as opposed to it being overly verbose and noisy.
[0]: https://github.com/erincatto/box2d/blob/main/src/collision/b...
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Make a game engine in C++
For Physics Box2d can be used as a simple starting point.
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Does anyone know any good open source project to optimize?
I suspect most C++ physics libraries like Box2D (https://github.com/erincatto/box2d) or Bullet3 (https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3) could really benefit a lot from SIMD.
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what to start learning
for 2D physics have a look at Box2D it's amazing https://box2d.org/
HPX
- Does anyone know any good open source project to optimize?
- Looking for projects to contribute to
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What are some C++ projects with high quality code that I can read through?
https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx Modern C++ concepts incorporated in a threading library. Lots of useful techniques used in there and we are trying to keep our code base very tidy. Feel free to chime in our libera channel #ste||ar if you have any questions.
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Any C++ open source projects for beginners?
https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx Welcoming community + we have been part of GSoC for 4-5 years now so feel free to apply there when it opens ;)
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Getting started with first HPC project
You definitely do not want to learn Boost, trust me. The cudatoolkit is fine, HPX is great, so are Dask, and Ray. I do not recommend MPI unless those computers you have use InfiniBand.
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Questions about writing my own CFD code
I found this interesting library that might fit your goal.
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John "God" Carmack: C++ with a C flavor is still the best (also: Python performance "keeps hitting me in the face")
I personally like the ideas in Parallelism v2 TS, which is available in for libstdc++ 11 onwards. The reference implementation is a library named Vc (afaik Vc is the most popular SIMD library for C++), and this has also been implemented in recent versions of HPX.
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Is there any good reason not to build an open-source C++ project on Intels oneTBB?
I am aware of DAGs of task based threading library like Taskflow and HPX however the benefit they have is not obvious to me, as the following sequential section depends on the parallel part being completed fully. If you want to suggest elaboration on the benefits of this approach would be welcome.
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How to publish a paper about my own C++ software
Github: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx
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Would anyone be interested in an HPC coroutine library for MPI?
We're working on something similar, but based on sender/receiver in HPX (a lightweight threading runtime) and DLA-Future (distributed linear algebra currently based on (HPX) futures; based on sender/receiver in the future). With senders-as-awaitables this would also get you coroutine support for asynchronous MPI calls for free. We don't have that yet, but it's planned. In the meantime libunifex should be able to fill in the gaps.
What are some alternatives?
Bullet - Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
Taskflow - A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System
Chipmunk - A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.
Thrust - [ARCHIVED] The C++ parallel algorithms library. See https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
RaftLib - The RaftLib C++ library, streaming/dataflow concurrency via C++ iostream-like operators
LiquidFun - 2D physics engine for games
libcds - A C++ library of Concurrent Data Structures
PhysX - NVIDIA PhysX SDK
Boost.Compute - A C++ GPU Computing Library for OpenCL
box2d-lite - A small 2D physics engine
ArrayFire - ArrayFire: a general purpose GPU library.