Using Cinder with the ReactPhysics3D physics engine library in Xcode

A simple Xcode project integrating the open source Cinder (OpenGL) library with the ReactPhysics3D library.

All this is really just intended to be the jumping off point for your own work ...

Both Cinder and ReactPhysics3D are already included, in different forms:

Cinder is supplied as the pre-built libcinder.a provided in the Cinder/include/lib/macosx directory. (And of course with the header files.)

ReactPhysics3D is supplied as full source (and headers), as when I was trying to use a compiled library I started getting some weird exceptions when destroying rigid bodies, and I couldn’t solve the problem. So to see if I could track the issue down, I linked in the full source and compiled everything from scratch. The exceptions disappeared. So, there we go ... (Mind you, I still had to comment out one assertion for Transforms for some reason which I still haven’t got around to looking more closely at. Maybe in the New Year...)

So if you want to link in your own Cinder install, you will need to update the Cinder path (CINDER_PATH in User-Defined in Build Settings of the project) in Xcode to your own installation, and then you can dump all the supplied stuff. (Download Cinder from their web site.)

(The Xcode project was originally generated using TinderBox, the Cinder-supplied utility.)

The ReactPhysics3D header and source files can also be replaced with more recent versions without too much trouble. (Download the source files, makes files etc from the ReactPhysics3D site.)

cinder-and-reactphysics3d.mp4

Cinder version used: 0.9.2

ReactPhysics3D version used: 0.8.0

The Cinder site: https://libcinder.org/ (Cinder is a free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.)

The ReactPhysics3D site: https://www.reactphysics3d.com/ (ReactPhysics3D is a C++ physics engine library that can be used in 3D simulations and games. The library is developed by Daniel Chappuis and is released under the open-source ZLib license.)

Although there’s no license/restrictions on the few little bits I’ve done, please note that both Cinder and ReactPhysics3D have their own separate licenses:

Cinder

Copyright (c) 2010, The Cinder Project

This code is intended to be used with the Cinder C++ library, http://libcinder.org

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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ReactPhysics3D

Copyright (c) 2010-2020 Daniel Chappuis http://www.reactphysics3d.com

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

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