Rapier Alternatives

rapier reviews and mentions

• SpacetimeDB
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2025

  I believe they've done more complicated physics in their game bitcraft, but that code hasn't been released yet (no idea if it will be.) But there has been work in the discord recently and 2 member have individually implemented rapier[1] at this point. I can't say anything about the related netcode however as I don't know how much they've focused on it. At the very least work has been done.

  The unity tutorial is just to get up and running as fast as possible in the simplest way possible, not to make the perfect decisions for a networked physics based game.

  I however do think they should provide an actual reference to prove the claim,

  [1] https://github.com/dimforge/rapier

• Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2024
• Xkcd 2916: Machine
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2024

  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)

• Rust Game Physics Engines: PhysX, Rapier, XPBD & Others
  10 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024

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

• Rapier: Fast 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
• Bevy XPBD: A physics engine for the Bevy game engine
  1 project | /r/rust | 4 Jul 2023

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

• What's everyone working on this week (22/2023)?
  14 projects | /r/rust | 28 May 2023

  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.

• Constructing a piston/muscle/gas strut in bevy_rapier3d?
  1 project | /r/bevy | 24 Apr 2023

  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.

• Next part of my platformer in bevy series
  1 project | /r/bevy | 12 Feb 2023

  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

• What libraries does Idris need to increase adoption?
  5 projects | /r/Idris | 4 Feb 2023

  Likewise, see the js bindings of Rapier.

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