{"id":725,"date":"2009-01-07T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2009-05-01T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T09:29:12","slug":"as3-flash-physics-engine-box2d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/as3-flash-physics-engine-box2d\/","title":{"rendered":"AS3 Flash Physics Engine Box2D"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking for a physics engine for Flash so I started looking for one… there are a lot of engines…
\nI won’t mention them all, there are enough people who did that already (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

If the list is that big, how to choose?
\nWell I also want to use it with papervision3d<\/a> so I googled on that and if someone checked out a couple of engines<\/a> (this guy checked out 3<\/a>).
\nAnd in one of my rss feeds there is a guy who builds games<\/a>, and now it writing tutorials for box2d<\/a> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So I decided on box2d<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Box2D is an open source physics engine written primarily for games. As the name suggests, Box2D is a purely 2D engine. However, Box2D has grown beyond it’s humble box simulating roots, and can now handle convex polygons and other shapes coming soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Box2D is written in C++, but there is a port to as3: AS3 Flash Physics Engine Box2DFlashAS3 2.0.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[swf]http:\/\/box2dflash.sourceforge.net\/PhysTest201.swf, 520, 292[\/swf]<\/div>\n

Box2DFlashAS3 is an open source port of Erin Catto<\/a>‘s powerful c++ physics library Box2D.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is not a lot of information about Box2DFlashAS3 and tutorials are even harder to find.
\nSo here some useful links:<\/p>\n