I'm trying to call PhysX from Java but so far I haven't even been able to compile/run any of their samples.
i'm really interrested to know if someone here got it to work and how.
I posted this on the PhysX forum but so far nobody answered.
Hello
I've been trying now for 3 days straight to use PhysX 2.7.x but still no luck. The libraries are not linkable it seems.
It can compile it but will not link And that was only after I modified the nx.h and nxMath.h plus some other files that relied on MS things it looked..
I come from Java and have some experience with C++ and different physics and game engines, so it can't be totally newbie errors. Why is it this so diffult ?
It seems that PhysX is geared towards one compiler and one compiler only..fine..but what compiler is that and where do we get it ? From looking at the code I sense MS VS version X and fear Version 6 (because where can we get it ?).
And you mention visual studio 2003 as well in your getting started guide..but you also say that you could use whatever compiler you want.
I tried with many compilers so far (Dev C++, Eclipse CPT with MingW)I also tried VS2005..Also impossible. Opening the solutions do no good as well.
I tried every possible way..building a project from scratch or including headers, copying headers. putting libs here or there..
Hey, Per, it's been a long time since you were posting, welcome back :). Answering to this thread does not mean you are going to do PhysX support, does it?
I can't stop lurking around, hehe I've spent some time porting good old Marble Fun to the latest jME version and jME Physics 2. Hope to share it with you guys soon.
public class SimpleActorDemo {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
//Create a new world
World world = new World();
//set gravity
world.setGravity(0, -9, 0);
//create a groundplane
new GroundPlaneActor();
/*
* create actors (a box and a sphere)
*/
ActorParameters params = new ActorParameters();
params.setDynamic(true);
params.setDensity(10f);
Actor box = new BoxActor(params,0.5f,0.5f,0.5f);
Actor sphere = new SphereActor(params,0.5f);
//set mass of actors
box.setMass(1);
sphere.setMass(2);
//set actor position
box.setPosition(100, 1000, 100);
sphere.setPosition(100, 100, 10);
//assign material to box and sphere
Material material1 = new Material();
material1.setDynamicFriction(10);
box.setMaterial(material1);
sphere.setMaterial(material1);
//iterate the world
for(int i=0;i<90000;i++) {
//add force just for fun
sphere.addForce(100, 0, 0);
//step the world
world.update(0.01f);//set stepsize here
//print results
System.out.println("Position of objects : "+box.getPosition()+";"+sphere.getPosition());
System.out.println("Velocity ="+box.getLinearVelocity()+" "+sphere.getLinearVelocity());
System.out.println("Force ="+box.computeKineticEnergy()+" "+sphere.computeKineticEnergy());
//System.out.println("Rotation:n "+box.getRotation()+";n"+sphere.getRotation());
}
}
}
Any chance of getting some videos of the demos when you get a little further along? Great initiative BTW, not of huge use to me personally with my current game, but it's cool to see something like this coming over to Java and enriching not only the jME community but the entire Java gaming community.
First I've heard of anyone getting anything to work in Java with PhysX…this is exciting. :) We just need to work it into jME-Physics and it will be awesome to be able to switch between PhysX and ODE (not that anyone would still use ODE of course).
OK fine…now I have the repository at googlecode…but the old one I used (a free 10mb at cvsdude) is giving me problems. I disconnected from it and tried
to connect to the google one. But each time it tries to use the one at cvs dude (its subclipse)
Right now I can only commit to the one at cvs dude regardless of what I write in the URL. Even brandnew projects called dfdsfmkdskf(for example).
You probably didn't tell it to delete the SVN directories on the local copy when you disconnected. If you're on Windows open up the folder in Windows Explorer and search for ".svn" and then delete all the results from the file system.
