Tutorial Articles

From Physics Simulation Wiki

In-depth explanations of specific topics about the Bullet Physics SDK. Alert: those topics need to be reviewed, so if you are in doubt please check the user manual or the forums.

• Rigid Bodies are the basic building block of the physics world.

• Collision Shapes are plentiful in Bullet, here we help you choose the right one.

• MotionStates are a convenient callback facility to allow you to update your graphics when objects move.

• Stepping the World explains what the stepSimulation parameters are, how to tweak them, and the impact on Determinism.

• Simulation Tick Callbacks explains how to add a callback function for each simulation tick.

• Activation is how bullet optimizes it's simulation.

• Collision Filtering, how to enable and disable collisions between objects.

• Collision Callbacks and Triggers, how to be notified of a collision.

• Broadphase What it is and which to use.

• Determinism Making your engine do the same thing each time it is reset.

• Scaling The World

• Anti tunneling by Motion Clamping

• btContactSolverInfo Advanced Constraint solver settings.

• Code Snippets

• Soft Body Rendering

• Obsolete: Creating a COLLADA physics snapshot

• Bullet binary serialization

• Using RayTest Basic raycasting

• Vehicles using btRaytestVehicle