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[FuSiON]

I just wanted to ask who is working on what. I would like to code for WGE but I don't know where to start. I did some programming to familiarze myself with the engine.
What I did is modify the actor class and split it up into a Actor and a PhysicalActor since the translate, scale and rotate methods are not needed by a physics actor. I've added some physicas specific methods like addImpulse() etc. And then I've been thinking about collision geometry since creating a convex hull for all bodys is not the best solution (just think of a chair or a table). Building collision geometry out of the primitive types provided by newton is a better solution for it. Walaber created a tool for building collision geometry and realesed the source. I've compiled it and try to improve uppon it so wen can use it as an editor.

[mysterycoder]

I'm working on physics, I saw his editor too, and I am adding the loader for the XML file to the WGE. I know convex hulls are inefficient, but I was just trying get physics up and running quickly.

The funny thing is, your post is essentially my todo list    I really don't have much physics experience, so that'd be great if you could help with the physics stuff. As long as its okay with pjcast  :wink:

On a side note, I've been working on getting terrain to load into OgreNewt as a ConvexHull, I'm almost there, but, I'm having trouble with getting indices for the terrain.

I would love to see the PhysicalActor class, is it tied into the Actor class only, or can you use it for other types of physics objects?