NxOgre

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NxOgre is a physics wrapper for PhysX . It is open-source and released under the LGPL licence. It was created and maintained by Betajaen. There are two main versions of NxOgre; Bloody Mess and Bleeding. Bloody Mess is the latest unstable code and Bleeding is the older stable branch.

Although NxOgre has OGRE as part of it's name, it will work with any renderer in 3D, 2D or even none at all. It comes with a single demo application framework called Cake in various forms, and a multi-purpose command-line/GUI application called Flour.

Status Quo

The trunk version of NxOgre is called BloodyMess (1.5.4+) and the current stable version of NxOgre is called Bleeding (1.0.22+).

• Latest BloodyMess release
• Bleeding SVN
• Latest Flour release

I'm stuck!

Join us in the NxOgre forum, we won't bite - much.

Downloading, Installing and using NxOgre

• Install PhysX
• Get and compile Bloody Mess or Bleeding
• Use Ogre with NxOgre^{bloody mess}
• My First Application^{bloody mess}
• Betajaen's shortguide to creating a Bloody Mess^{bloody mess (WIP)}

Tutorials

Recommending reading on Classical Physics

Although it isn't essential to know all of physics to use PhysX and NxOgre, it is strongly recommended that you familiarise yourself with many of the basic terms, make sure you know the differences between real-life terms and more accurate physics ones and familiar with the math and units.

Either of these two on-line books are more than acceptable reading.

• Newtonian Physics by Benjamin Crowell.
• Classical Mechanics by Richard Fitzpatrick.

Betajaen's Ramblings

• Betajaen's Guide to NxOgre^bleeding
• File formats used with NxOgre and PhysX^{bleeding and bloodymess}

Spacegaier Tutorials^{bloody mess}

1. Setting up BloodyMess
2. First steps
3. Visual Debugger
4. Volumes / Triggers
5. Kinematics
6. Raycasting
7. Resources and Meshes
8. Terrain / Heigthfields
9. Joints
10. Cloth

Special tutorials^{bloody mess}

• Newton ♥ PhysX

Code snippets^{bloody mess}
General - Particles - Mesh Cooking - Cloths

Spacegaier's Tutorials^{bloody mess}
Setting up BloodyMess - First steps - Visual Debugger - Volumes & Triggers - Kinematics - Raycasting - Resources and Meshes
Terrain / Heigthfields - Joints - Cloth