Recommended Physics Engine?

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  • JoltPhysics

    A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library. Written in C++. Suitable for games and VR applications. Used by Horizon Forbidden West.

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  • PhysX

    NVIDIA PhysX SDK (by NVIDIA-Omniverse)

    I don’t know of any books but here is the official documentation which includes an API reference. You can also find a lot of sample code snippets and examples on their GitHub.

  • Bullet

    Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.

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