Aloha,

We are pleased to announce that we just released a new version of jiglibflash, which currently supports Away3D 4.0 Broomstick.
You can find it in the jiglibflash SVN under the fp11 tag.

New in this version:
- Support for Away3D 4.0 broomstick;
- Grid system, which improves the time used for a simulation step when you have lots of objects. In the grid system example you can see that it’s about 15 times faster then before;
- JTriangleMesh, use any 3D model as a rigidbody, see trianglemesh example (the ramp /ground etc.);
- new stats counter with Physics and 3D information.

Tech examples (make sure you have installed the new flash player incubator ) :

- Grid system
- Trianglemesh
- Stack demo
- Terrain
- Car Drive

I want to thank Muzer and Devin for their great work on this release, and the Away3D team for having us in their closed beta.

If you have a demo or game done, send me a email jiglibflash at ringo.nl or post a comment. I will try to maintain a list of it.

Thanks and have fun,

Ringo
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Aloha,

Thanks to Katopz (hugs), we now have a fp10 version of JigLibFlash working and away3dlite support!

I laid some ´groundwork´ for  working with height-maps and Muzer did a amazing job making it work with JigLibFlash. He also added rag-dolls using new hinge joints!
You can find the rag-dolls and height-map examples at muzer’s new homepage.
Also, I would like to thank Bartek and Devin for all the adjustments and speed improvements and much more.

JigLibFlash Needs Your Help!

Currently, we are looking for a person who could make proper documentation for jiglibflash.
If you are interested contact me: ringo at 3dsynergy dott com

You can find the updates in the regular SVN (see source tab).
If you build something add it in the comments we love to see what you can do with JigLibFlash!

Thanks to everyone in the community for all the hard work to make JigLibFlash even faster and more amazing.

Have fun…

Hi all:

There have been a few edits and additions made to the library lately:

Radians vs Degrees 

One major change is how rotation is handled. We made a few changes to the RigidBody class and the JConfig class. You as a developer now have the option to use either degrees or radians to set and get RigidBody rotations. All you have to do is specify which type you want to use by setting the JConfig.rotationType to either DEGREES or RADIANS. At the moment the JConfig.rotationType value is defaulted to DEGREES

The engine level calculations are still done with radians though (may or may not change, TBD), never the less the conversion to radians and degrees and vice versa is done at the RigidBody level. Additionally, we have added “yaw”, “pitch” and “roll” properties to the RigidBody class which also use either radians or degrees based on the JConfig.rotationType value.

New class: MouseConstraint

There has been a new class to the Papervision3D plug-in called MouseConstraint and a new example to the Papervision3D examples folder. The class basically allows you to attach a world constraint to an object and simulate dragging.

Other News

You can now also access the the PhysicsSystem directly from your instance of the plugin by accessing the “engine’ property.

What used to be:

can now be accessed as 

considering that you names your instance of the plugin “physics”.

You can now also add constraints directly from your plugin instance as so:

where as before you had to get an instance of the PhysicsSystem and add it to that.

There are also new examples on how to set up constraints and a really cool example by Muzerly on how to set up a car using the vehicles package!

Stay tuned!!