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…

API Docs

To browse the docs follow this link http://www.jiglibflash.com/docs/. The code contains very few comments for the moment, but it’s still very useful to get an overview of all the classes that are part of JigLibFlash. The docs will be updated on a regular basis to match the contents of the repository. Currently we are at revision 92. The revision number will always be indicated in the title and in the header of the docs.

SWC

I saw on Twitter some requests for a SWC file, so we added this too. You will find it in the Downloads section of the Google Code. The name of the file also contains the revision number it is based on. We will update the SWC file with each important update of the code base. A current SWC file is also available in the repository, in folder trunk/fp9/swc.

ANT script

For those of you that are familiar with ANT scripts, there is one available in the repository here. It contains targets that generate the API docs and SWC files, so if you need those customized feel free to use it. If you do so however, be sure to update all the paths in the properties listed at the beginning of the document to match local paths on your machine.

I hope you’ll find this little update useful. Thanks!

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!!

The 3D physics engine jiglibflash is updated and now has support for Away 3d, Papervision 3d and Sandy 3d  (thanks Thomas). If other engines would like their plug-in code included, please let me know. Lots of changes have been made which required revising the API. Please be sure to update to the most recent revision. Most of the work is done by Bartek and Reyco (nice work guys!).

At the moment we are working on examples (you can find some in the SVN already), tutorials, fixing bugs and adding some extra features.

When that’s all done we will start on the documentation, for now see http://code.google.com/p/jiglibflash/wiki/New_API_Very_Short_Tutorial.

JiglibFlash is a open source Actionscript 3D Physics Engine. It’s ported by muzerly from the c++ open source physics engine jiglib and uses a part of jiglibX. The SVN source of JiglibFlash can be found here.

The current state of the library is in early alpha  and there is no documentation nor tutorials yet. First we will work on some extra ‘features’, like a heightmap and car physics.

The current JiglibFlash demo (click in the screen and use arrow keys and the space bar to ‘jump’) uses PaperVision 3D as render engine. However we will do some architecture changes so that it will work on every 3D open source render engine out there.
The good news is that it’s already available for other 3d physics engines then PaperVision 3D, see Sandy 3D example and Away 3D example. Thanks for that guys!

Since we all have full time+ jobs it’s hard to tell how fast we will advance but we (muzerly mostly atm ) do our best.
We are also looking for people to join the project team, so if you have some spare time contact me that would be great.

You can reach us at the irc server freenode at channel #jiglibflash or mail me at speedok at gmail dott com.

“One day, one day, full GPU support?”