Bullet 2.69 Physics SDK released: split impulse, tear & pick Cloth and Soft Bodies

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+ Added split impulse support, penetration recovery won’t add momentum
+ cloth/soft body improvements: picking (pick and drag), tearing (click and release without mouse move), preliminary support for btSoftBody versus compound and concave trimesh
+ Added new btDbvtBroadphase, based on dynamic AABB tree. It has the capability to do view frustum culling and front-to-back traversal. See Extras\CDTestFramework for view frustum culling sample.
+ Enabled new btGjkEpa2 penetration depth solver, thanks to Nathanael
+ Provide access to all persistent manifolds for a given btBroadphasePair, see CharacterDemo for sample usage
+ Added linear and angular motor for btSliderConstraint
+ Add penetration depth test for convexSweepTest
+ removed several warnings for Windows build, thanks to Martijn Reuvers
+ Added Mac Cocoa Xcode project, thanks to TomorrowPlus
+ use collision margin of btBvhTriangleMeshShape for convexTest, Thanks to reltham for the contribution.
+ added custom memory allocator registration, thanks to Sly.

Download Bullet 2.69 from the Bullet repository at Google Code.

Bullet 2.68 Physics SDK released: Soft Bodies and iPhone support

+ New BulletSoftBody library: cloth, rope and deformable volumes, including interaction with rigid bodies. Thanks Nathanael Presson.
+ Added btSliderConstraint
+ Added Extras/CdTestFrameWork, Thanks Pierre Terdiman
+ Added posix thread support (pthreads), Thanks Enrico.
+ Moved ConvexHull into Bullet/src
+ Moved optional quickstep and box-box collision detector to Bullet/src. Thanks Russell Smith for permission to re-distribute under the ZLib license.
+ Many bugfixes and improvements to BulletColladaConverter, btSubsimplexConvexCast, btMultiSapBroadphase, btOptimizedBvh

Download full SDK source code and precompiled Windows and Mac OSX Universal binary demos from http://code.google.com/p/bullet/downloads/list

Wolfgang Engel developed the Oolong Engine 2 for iPhone, and initial Bullet support looks very promising. Unlike most other phones, the floating point performance of the iPhone is very good.
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Thanks everyone for the hard work and feedback,

Erwin

Bullet 2.67 Physics SDK available now

Bullet 2.67 is available now from http://code.google.com/p/bullet/

  • Add support for fast batch raycasting on SPU / BulletMultiThreaded
  • Add support for 16 and 32-bit indexed triangle meshes in SPU / BulletMultiThreaded version.
  • Improved COLLADA Physics export snapshot from any Bullet btDynamicsWorld. Saving the physics world into .dae (xml textfile) can be useful for debugging etc.
  • Initial version for Character Control Demo
  • Bugfixes in ConvexCast support against the world.
  • Added btCapsuleShapeX/Z
  • Added btTypedUserInfo, useful for serialization
  • Added Stan Melax Convex Hull utility library in Extras/ConvexHull. This is useful to render non-polyhedral convex objects, and to simplify convex polyhedra.

The SVN repository is sychronized with the existing sourceforge repository.

Development is ongoing, and outstanding issues will roll into upcoming releases.

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