The Minie physics library

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I’ve released version 1.4.0 of Minie. As usual, there are 2 versions: 1.4.0for32 (for JME 3.2.4-stable) and 1.4.0for33 (for JME 3.3.0-beta1).

Note that Minie’s Maven groupId has changed from “jme3utilities” to “com.github.stephengold”. This change was necessary in order for Minie to be included in JCenter; your build scripts no longer need to reference my personal Maven repositories.

Other highlights:

  • fixed some nasty scaling bugs involving CompoundCollisionShape and Convex2dShape
  • V-HACD support is now built into Minie, including progress listeners
  • based on Bullet version 2.89
  • ray tests and sweep tests now return info (for some shapes) to pinpoint which part and/or triangle was hit
  • debug visualization can now be used to color the children of a CompoundCollisionShape
  • the DropTest demo has been massively enhanced with many cool shapes

Behind the scenes, automated tests were added to Libbulletjme (the native-library project that Minie depends on). A spin-off of this effort is that Libbulletjme can now be used to provide physics simulation and V-HACD to Java applications that don’t use JMonkeyEngine.

Don’t ask me why anyone would want to use physics for anything other than JMonkeyEngine games! But there it is … :wink:

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