Physix.go

A simple Physics Engine in GoLang☻

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage
• Examples
• Contributing
• License
• Acknowledgments

Introduction

Physix.go is simple, easy to use , fast , physics engine written in GoLang With functions to perform physics calculations faster...

Features

• Vector Calculations
• Physics Calculations
• Easy to use with Ebiten.go

Getting Started

Prerequisites

GoLang must be installed And Ebiten

Installation

Install

To start , Clone this project

git clone https://github.com/rudransh61/Physix.go

Then Run the example files from ./examples folder

for example :

go run ./examples/ex4.go //which is simple circular motion

Documentation

Vectors

Vectors are a datatype to store vectors.

Import the following file to use vectors

package main 

import (
  //...other imports
  "github.com/rudransh61/Physix-go/pkg/vector"
)

To make a vector

var MyVector := vector.Vector{X: 30, Y: 20}
// X is x component and Y is y component of Vector

Using Function

var NewVec := vector.NewVector(x,y)

Add Vector

var NewVector = Vec1.Add(Vec2)

Subtract Vector

var NewVector = Vec1.Sub(Vec2)

Inner Product of 2 Vectors

var DotProduct := Vec1.InnerProduct(Vec2)

Scale a Vector by a scalar

var ScaledVector := Vec1.Scale(num)

Magnitude of a Vector

var Magnitude := Vec1.Magnitude()

Normalize a Vector

var NormalizeVector = Vec1.Normalize()

Distance between Head of 2 Vectors

var distance = vector.Distance(Vec1,Vec2)

Perpendicular Vector of a given Vector

vector.Vector Orthogonal_Vector = vector.Orthogonal(Vec1)

Basics

In this Physics Engine , we call every physical entity a : RigidBody

There are 2 types of RigidBody According to their Shape

• Rectangle
• Circle

Every RigidBody have following properties :-

 - Position     : Vector           # Required while initializing
 - Velocity     : Vector
 - Force        : Vector
 - Mass         : float64          # Required while initializing for Collision and Forces
 - Shape        : string           # Required while initializing for Collision
 - Width        : float64          # Required while initializing only for Shape :- "Rectangle"
 - Height       : float64          # Required while initializing only for Shape :- "Rectangle"
 - Radius       : float64          # Required while initializing only for Shape :- "Circle"
 - IsMovable    : bool             # Required while initializing for Collision and Forces

RigidBody

To create an instance of RigidBody you need to provide all the required fields .

First Import these files,

import (
  "github.com/rudransh61/Physix-go/dynamics/physics"
	"github.com/rudransh61/Physix-go/pkg/rigidbody"
)

Example :-

ball = &rigidbody.RigidBody{
		Position:  vector.Vector{X: 400, Y: 100},
		Velocity:  vector.Vector{X: 0, Y: 2},
		Mass:      1,
		Force:     vector.Vector{X: 0, Y: 5},
		IsMovable: true,
		Shape:     "Rectangle",
		Width:     50,
		Height:    50,
	}

To update position of a RigidBody, Use ApplyForce in a loop , Example :-

for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
        github.com/rudransh61/Physix-go.ApplyForce(ball1, vector.Vector{X: 10, Y: 0}, dt) // Make the vector (0,0) to apply no force
        // .. other code
    }

To access or change the Force , Velocity , Position,

ball.Velocity // Get the velocity of ball as a vector.Vector
ball.Position.X += 5 // Increase the position of ball in X direction by 5

Collision Detection

There are 2 types of collision systems for different shapes.

• Rectangle-Rectangle collision
• Circle-Circle collision

Rectangle Collision

For example you have 2 Rectangles, Like this :-

rect = &rigidbody.RigidBody{
	Position: vector.Vector{X: 100, Y: 200},
	Velocity: vector.Vector{X: 50, Y: -50},
	Mass:     1.0,
	Shape : "Rectangle",
	Width : 100,
	Height : 90,
	IsMovable : true,
}
rect2 = &rigidbody.RigidBody{
	Position: vector.Vector{X: 400, Y: 300},
	Velocity: vector.Vector{X: 60, Y: 50},
	Mass:     2.0,
	Shape : "Rectangle",
	Width : 70,
	Height : 70,
	IsMovable : true,
}

Now you want to detect collision between them ,

if(collision.RectangleCollided(rect,rect2)){
	fmt.Println("Collided!")
}

And if you want to add a bounce effect in this collision according to the Momentum Conservation and Energy Conservation,

if(collision.RectangleCollided(rect,rect2)){
	float64 e = 0.9999999999;                // e is coefficient of restitution in collision
	collision.BounceOnCollision(ball,ball2,e)// NOTE :- e<1 is bit glitchy and goes wild, use it on your own risk :)
}

==NOTE :- e<1 is bit glitchy and goes wild, use it on your own risk :) ==

Circle Collision

Now if you want to detect collisions between a circle and a circle,

if(collision.CircleCollided(rect,rect2)){
	fmt.Println("Collided!")
}

And same BounceOnCollision function for Bouncing ...

Examples

Check examples in ./example folder

Contributing

New contributors are welcome!! If you have any doubt related to its working you can ask to us by opening an issue

License

LICENSE.md file

Acknowledgments

Inspired from Coding Train - Daniel Shiffman