Please, be nice and take a look at what Erwin is doing

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
#1

I have only one thing to say:

Bf-blender-CVS Digest

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3. SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [16568] trunk/blender:
Preparaton for real-time soft bodies for the game engine, step 1 out of 3 . (Erwin Coumans)

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#2

wow… pretty awesome…

#3

So it may well happen, coolios brah

#4

I figured something like that was what was going on when my build gave me an error.

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C:\install\lib\libextern_bullet2softbody.a(btSoftBodyHelpers.o):btSoftBodyHelper s.cpp:  
(.text+0x25e9): undefined reference to `HullLibrary::CreateConvexHull(Hull Desc  
 const&, HullResult&)' C:\install 
\lib\libextern_bullet2softbody.a(btSoftBodyHelpers.o):btSoftBodyHelper s.cpp: 
(.text+0x27b7): undefined reference to `HullLibrary::ReleaseResult(HullRes ult&)' 
 C:\install\lib\libextern_bullet2softbody.a(btSoftBodyHelpers.o):btSoftBodyHelper s.cpp: 
(.text+0x6475): undefined reference to `HullLibrary::CreateConvexHull(Hull Desc 
 const&, HullResult&)' C:\install 
\lib\libextern_bullet2softbody.a(btSoftBodyHelpers.o):btSoftBodyHelper s.cpp: 
(.text+0x686b): undefined reference to `HullLibrary::ReleaseResult(HullRes ult&)' 
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status  ===== scons: *** [C:\install\bin\blender.exe] Error  1 
scons: building terminated because of errors.

libextern_bullet2softbody.a looks promising…
This will be fun to play with.

#5

Hmmmm… If only I were a programmer… Ah I shouldn’t worry I’ll be in a few years XD

#6

@Pseudonym: update your sources, i think it was corrected few hours ago

Revision: 16573
http://projects.blender.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php?view=rev&root=bf-blender&revision=16573
Author: campbellbarton
Date: 2008-09-17 13:23:28 +0200 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008)

Log Message:

rev 16569 broke building.
Looks like bullets Extras/ConvexDecomposition is missing from blenders source.
comment functions so it builds for now.

#7

I dont see any pictures.

#8

you must be heartbroken

#9

@jesusFrk that’s because they are still working on it… quite a lot of work needs to be done… but the cool thing is that it’s happening. Maybe we will see more GE inspired projects like apricot after this.

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/2008-September/015774.html

if want to see some pictures of what it could look like… download the bullet soft body demo… from here…
http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/wordpress/

there is a demo for download here.
http://code.google.com/p/bullet/downloads/list

#10

If you read the mailing lists you see softbodies in the BGE are progressing at a steady rate, as well as generally upgrading Bullet itself.