cannon-es VS raycast-vehicle-engine

// ============ // part 2 // add base vehicle body // reference: https://github.com/pmndrs/cannon-es/blob/master/examples/rigid_vehicle.html // ============ const carBody = new CANNON.Body({ mass: 20, position: new CANNON.Vec3(0, 6, 0), shape: new CANNON.Box(new CANNON.Vec3(4, 0.5, 2)), });

cannon.js hasn't been maintained for 7-8 years, the project lives on here https://github.com/pmndrs/cannon-es you import it like so

Cannon-ES - 3D physics engine

Since I'm a big Poimandres fan I looked into react-xr, and it was very easy to get a first WebXR project up and running. Unfortunately, there are many dependencies in the ecosystem which slowed me down: react-xr is built on top of react-three-fiber which is built on top of Three.js, and physics is enabled by use-cannon which is built on top of cannon-es. For a long time I was running into issues and helping fix them with a couple of pull requests, and ultimately it was preventing me from working on the actual project. Still, Poimandres is a great community and I got a lot of inspiration from the content being shared in the discord.

This was the post I was remembering, see repo here: https://github.com/pmndrs/cannon-es

btw canon has been abandoned for years. it continues to receive support on here: https://github.com/pmndrs/cannon-es which next to bug fixes also gives it types and esm/tree-shaking.

Once I was done with setting up my first raycast vehicle, I was quite proud of myself. Although, I did wish that there was a website where I could upload my car model, and with some tweaks, generate all the code required to build a raycast vehicle. Now generating code on the browser and downloading it as files and folders is something which is not very easy to develop IRL, but is a very fun and plausible problem to solve. And that's how the idea for the Raycast Vehicle Engine took birth. A browser based engine, where a developer can upload a car model, make some tweaks in the code for the vehicle with the help of a GUI, and when satisfied with the tweaks, easily download the code, install using npm i and run using npm start. Sounds pretty interesting, right? Well that's just the beginning.

There are many more awesome features that I am planning to add to the engine, and you can help me out with it too. So do fork it on github. Thanks to everyone that contributed to this project and made it possible and thanks to you for reading this article.