Top 3 Rust Physics Engine Projects

rapier

39 3,522 8.1 Rust

2D and 3D physics engines focused on performance.

Project mention: Xkcd 2916: Machine | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-06

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)

nphysics

2 1,610 0.0 Rust

2 and 3-dimensional rigid body physics engine for Rust.

Project mention: Does anyone know a physics engine where I could simulate a building collapse or such? | /r/PhysicsEngine | 2023-10-03

Do you need to include fracturing? Is a simple "disassembly" sufficient? If it's rather a disassembly, then bulletphysics. Or take a look at this https://nphysics.org/

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bevy_xpbd

5 936 9.6 Rust

2D and 3D physics engine based on Extended Position Based Dynamics for Bevy.

Project mention: Rust Game Physics Engines: PhysX, Rapier, XPBD & Others | dev.to | 2024-04-03

Bevy XPBD will move away from the XPBD solver in coming months, which is worth bearing in mind if you are considering using it for your project.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).