Python游戏物理引擎开发实战指南

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"《Game Physics Engine Development》是一本专为游戏脚本开发人员设计的英文版第二版教材，其独特之处在于它专注于实际游戏物理引擎的构建，而非仅仅理论讲解。该书由Ian Millington撰写，旨在提供一个完整的实践指导，帮助读者从零开始掌握游戏物理编程。书中强调了实际开发中的实施细节，并深入探讨了在构建过程中必须做出的设计权衡。作者以自己在商业物理引擎领域的丰富经验为基础，使得内容具有很高的实用性和深度。它不仅适合那些需要自建游戏物理引擎的开发者，从基础的数学和物理学预备知识开始，逐步引导读者实现完整的引擎开发，包括可扩展软件设计、碰撞处理和约束动力学等核心模块。这本书对于业界从业者来说非常实用，能够在项目启动前为他们提供必要的理论和实践准备。同时，它的写作质量也足以作为大学本科课程中游戏物理学的教材，帮助学生理解游戏引擎背后的原理，从而提升他们的使用能力。知名游戏开发工具公司Geometric Tools的总裁Dave Eberly高度评价了这本书，他认为它填补了一个空白，即如何实实在在地构建一个游戏物理引擎。因此，《Game Physics Engine Development》是一本不可或缺的资源，无论你是想成为技术驱动的游戏开发者，还是需要提升对现有引擎理解的专业人士，都能从中受益匪浅。"

Physics Engine Design xv

18.1.1 The Jacobian 424

18.1.2 The Linear Complementary Problem 425

18.2

REDUCED COORDINATE APPROACHES 428

18.3

SUMMARY 429

APPENDICES

A COMMON INERTIA TENSORS 431

A.1

DISCRETE MASSES 431

A.2

CONTINUOUS MASSES 432

A.3

COMMON SHAPES 432

A.3.1 Cuboid 432

A.3.2 Sphere 432

A.3.3 Cylinder 433

A.3.4 Cone 433

B USEFUL FRICTION COEFFICIENTS FOR GAMES 434

C OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 435

C.1

C 435

C.2

JAVA 436

C.3

COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME (.NET) 436

C.4

LUA 436

D MATHEMATICS SUMMARY 438

D.1

VECTORS 438

D.2

QUATERNIONS 439

D.3

MATRICES 440

D.4

INTEGRATION 441

D.5

PHYSICS 442

D.6

OTHER FORMULAE 443

BIBLIOGRAPHY 445

INDEX 447

PREFACE

When I started writing games, in the 8-bit bedroom coding boom of the eighties, the

low budgets and short turnaround times for writing games encouraged innovation

and experimentation. This in turn led to some great games (and, it has to be said,

a whole heap of unplayable rubbish). Let no one tell you games were better back then!

I remember being particularly inspired by two games, both of which used realistic

physics as a core of their gameplay.

The ﬁrst, written by Jeremy Smith and originally published for the United King-

dom’s BBC Micro range of home computers, was Thrust. Based on the arcade game

Gravitar, an ivy-leaf shaped ship navigates through underground caverns under the

inﬂuence of a two-dimensional (2D) physical simulation. The aim is to steal a heavy

fuel pod, which is then connected to the ship via a cable. The relatively simple iner-

tial model of the spaceship then becomes a wonderfully complex interaction of two

heavy objects. The gameplay was certainly challenging, but had that one-more-time

feel that denotes a classic game.

The second game, written by Peter Irvin and Jeremy Smith (again), was Exile.

This is perhaps the most innovative and impressive game I have ever seen; it features

techniques beyond physics, such as procedural content creation that is only now being

adopted on a large scale.

Exile’s physics extends to every object in the game. Ammunition follows ballistic

trajectories—you can throw grenades, which explode sending nearby objects ﬂying;

you can carry a heavy object to weigh you down in a strong up-draft; and you can ﬂoat

pleasantly in water. Exile’s content qualiﬁes it as the ﬁrst complete physics engine in a

game.

Although Exile was released in 1988, I feel like a relative newcomer to the physics

coding party. I started writing game physics in 1999 by creating an engine for mod-

eling cars in a driving game. What I thought was going to be a month-long project

turned into something of an albatross.

I ran headlong into every physics problem imaginable, from stiff-suspension

springs, which sent my car spiraling off to inﬁnity; to wheels that wobbled at high

speed because friction moved objects around of their own accord; to hard surfaces

that looked like they were made of soft rubber. I tried a whole gamut of approaches,

from impulses to Jacobians, from reduced coordinates to faked physics. It was a learn-

ing curve unlike anything before or since in my game coding career.

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