Minie v3.1

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Version 3.1.0 of the Minie Physics Library was released today. It’s available from both GitHub and JCenter.

In addition to some important bug fixes, v3.1 brings some features that I hope will prove useful. Here are the highlights:

  1. Two new builds for building more compact applications:
    • “3.1.0+big3” for JMonkeyEngine applications that need only support the 3 major platforms (Linux64, MacOSX64, and Windows64). It includes native physics libraries only for those 3.
    • “3.1.0+bare” for applications that provide their own native physics libraries. It doesn’t include any native libraries.
  2. Methods added to CollisionShapeFactory to create box and hull shapes using a merged mesh. These methods produce simpler, more efficient shapes than the old createBoxShape() and createDynamicMeshShape() methods, without sacrificing much accuracy.
  3. For applications that empty out a PhysicsSpace in order to re-use it, the destroy() function was re-implemented. The function was defined as a no-op in previous releases. It’s not difficult to code this yourself; it’s provided solely for convenience.
  4. “miniedump”, a new command-line tool for analyzing J3O files. Very much a “work in progress” at this time.
  5. Added support for Linux_ARM32 platforms such as the Raspberry Pi. (Thanks again, Pavly!)

For more details, see the release page at GitHub. For even more details, see the release log.

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