New physics engine.
I’ve been experimenting with physics engines for Flash AS3 with a mind to upgrading the one I made from scratch for my parallax scrolling game.
Box2D is well known, very powerful and has extensive documentation, but after taking a look at the manual, I decided that it left out too many common tasks for the sake of flexibility. Also I do not like converting pixels to meters. I may return to this if they get some more advanced features implemented for as3.
APE was ridiculously easy to use and wonderfully documented. I was able to set up my game engine to use this is just a few hours, however, I quickly ran into a wall† when it came to the features I needed.
Glaze is what I’m tinkering with currently. It has little to no AS3 documentation, but it is based on the chipmunk physics library and documented in it’s daddy’s C language. It’s amazingly fast, and so far, it’s making some sense to me. I’ve made it parse a MovieClip to build rigid bodies out of it’s children, sleep off screen bodies, and I’ve extended the RigidBody Class to handle different types of collisions.
Here is a little demo of where I am so far: (use keys: WASD, SPACEBAR)
adapting glaze physics as3
It’s still missing a ton of features present in my current game work in progress.
† What is the word for when a metaphor has 2 meanings? Like an idiomatic pun, but not a pun. UPDATE: it’s double Entendre or innuendo.