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Daniel Shiffman
Processing and Box2D
Feb 8th, 2010, 7:08pm  
I've written a tutorial and started a library (?) about using Box2D in Processing.

blog post: http://www.shiffman.net/2010/02/08/box2d-and-processing/

tutorial: http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/box2d-processing/

google code: http://code.google.com/p/pbox2d/

Feedback is welcome!!
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antiplastik
Re: Processing and Box2D
Reply #1 - Feb 9th, 2010, 4:47am  
Great!
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nardove
Re: Processing and Box2D
Reply #2 - Feb 9th, 2010, 6:16am  
Another great tutorial, thanks a lot D.

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Daniel Shiffman
Re: Processing and Box2D
Reply #3 - Feb 14th, 2010, 2:50pm  
And a quick addition, some toxiclibs examples:

http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/toxiclibs/
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cr0ybot
Re: Processing and Box2D
Reply #4 - Feb 15th, 2010, 2:31pm  
I only wish you had come out with this a month ago!

I'm a senior at the Cleveland Institute of Art working on my BFA thesis project. I've been wrestling with the BoxWrap2D library, and it does work, for very simple things. But it has frustratingly little documentation, and didn't really have much to say about accessing JBox2D code, and especially not all the way into Box2D.

I think pbox2d will be very helpful!

I just hope I can get something going with this in 2 days... Shocked

I do have one question though - is there a place we can go that lists every pbox2d class and method?
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Daniel Shiffman
Re: Processing and Box2D
Reply #5 - Feb 15th, 2010, 2:51pm  
For now, you just have to look at the source.  You can see that PBox2D itself has very little, everything is really part of JBox2D.

http://code.google.com/p/pbox2d/source/browse/trunk/PBox2D/src/pbox2d/PBox2D.java
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cr0ybot
Re: Processing and Box2D
Reply #6 - Feb 15th, 2010, 2:58pm  
Thanks!

I actually just found the JBox2D documentation packaged with the download, and I'm pouring through it now.

Questions: Is there any possibility that PBox2D will receive an update that allows for faster creation of bodies? For instance, BoxWrap2D has methods for creating circles and rectangles, i.e. createCircle(). It would be handy not having to write 10 lines of code for simple objects.

On the other hand, it is good to know how to create shapes "from scratch," so you know what's going on under the hood.

Either way, I'm thankful for this library, if you couldn't tell!
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