In previous articles, we have seen many basics which should help to make a game : scrolling, moving shapes, collision, inputs (mouse, keyboard, gamepad)…<\/p>\n
However, you may sometimes need to implement some physic principles : gravity, friction, restitution, etc.<\/p>\n
This is where Farseer Physics Engine<\/a> comes to the rescue. 2 importants concepts to start with : Lets add a project reference to farseer (note : I used msbuild \/property:configuration=release \u00ab\u00a0Farseer Physics XNA.csproj\u00a0\u00bb to build it). I encourage you to play with the world properties such as restitution, friction etc to see how it affects your world. The source code : XNA_DEMO_19<\/a><\/p>\n A video to illustrate it.<\/p>\n
\nFarseer Physics Engine is a collision detection system with realistic physics responses.<\/p>\n
\n–World<\/strong>
\nThe world object is the manager of it all. It iterates all the objects in the world each time you call the Step() function and makes sure everything is consistent and stable.
\n–Body <\/strong>
\nThe body keeps track of world position. It is basically a point is space that is affected by forces such as impulses from collisions and gravity.<\/p>\n
\nThen we will create a world, add a body to it and draw a texture based on the body position.<\/p>\n
\nAlso, notice how easy it is to detect collision (although I manage only plain shape for now, no convex shapes).<\/p>\n