Ngd4Xna

Updated Wiki: List of Classes

ngdrascal — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:16:33 GMT

List of classes

Core
NGDWorld
NGDBody
NGDMesh
NGDDisposableObject
NGDMathHelper
NGDUtilities

Collisions
NGDBox
NGDCapsule
NGDChamferCylinder
NGDCollisionBase
NGDCompoundCollision
NGDCone
NGDConvexHull
NGDConvexHullModifier
NGDCylinder
NGDNullCollision
NGDSphere
NGDTreeCollision

Custom Joints
NGD6DoFJoint
NGDCorkscrew2
NGDCustomJointBallAndSocket
NGDCustomJointBase
NGDDryRollingFriction
NGDFixedJoint
NGDGear
NGDHinge2
NGDLimitiedBallAndSocket
NGDPlayerController
NGDPoweredSlider
NGDPulley
NGDSlider2
NGDSpring
NGDUniversalJoint2
NGDUpVector2
NGDWormGear

Graphics
NGDBoxImage
NGDCapsuleImage
NGDChamferCylinderImage
NGDColor
NGDCompoundImage
NGDConeImage
NGDCylinderImage
NGDIDrawable
NGDImageBase
NGDImageFactory
NGDLines
NGDModelImage
NGDQuadImage
NGDSphereImage

Joints
NGDBallJoint
NGDCorkscrewJoint
NGDHingeJoint
NGDJointBase
NGDSliderJoint
NGDUniversalJoint
NGDUpVectorJoint

Materials
NGDMaterialIDFactory
NGDMaterialPair
NGDMaterialPairEvent

Ragdoll
NGDRagdoll
NGDRagdollBone

Vehicle
INGDMultiBodyTire
NGDMultiBodyVehicle

Updated Wiki: Home

ngdrascal — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Project Description

Ngd4Xna is a C# wrapper around the Newton Game Dynamics physics engine.

The goal of this project is to create an object oriented wrapper around the Newton Game Dynamics physics engine and to integrates that wrapper with Microsoft's XNA gaming library.

Ngd4Xna is different from other wrapper you might find on the web in that is not a flat C like API but rather an extensive class hierarchy. Almost the entire NGD API has been wrapped, this includes the custom joints.

The callbacks have been turned into .NET events/delegates and the .Net/native code interop issues have been addressed. The primary data structures are XNA's Matrix class and Vector3 class. While Ngd4Xna is not intended to be a gaming engine, it does include a set of graphics primitive corresponding to the NGD collision primitives (box, capsule, sphere, etc.). This allows for quick prototyping. Also included are a dozen or so demo programs which illustrate it different capabilities.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Ngd4Xna does not run on the XBox or Zune platforms.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Newton Game Dynamics 2.0 physics engine is NOT generally available to the public. It is currently a controlled beta release. Newton Game Dynamics is NOT included with Ngd4Xna but you will need a copy to use Ngd4Xna. You can request a copy by going to the Newton Game Dynamics user forums and requesting access to the beta.

Getting Started

List of Classes

Updated Wiki: Home

ngdrascal — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:15:13 GMT

Project Description

List of classes

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:25:19 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Open Visual Studio and load the Ngd4Xna solution. Now look at the solution explorer tab in Visual Studio. You’ll see the structure of the solution is several demo projects listed toward the top and at the bottom is the Ngd4Xna project. We'll be focusing on the Ngd4Xna project. The Ngd4Xna project is organized into folders. Classes in the same folder perform similar functions.

Collisions
A collision represents the shape of a physical object. It is used by the collision detection subsystem of NGD to determine when physical objects in your game collide. Collisions don't have mass, velocity, etc. These properties are part the rigid body the collision is associated with.

Custom Joint
NGD comes with a set of built in joints. It also come with the source code for several custom joints. The source code for these custom joints has been ported to C#. The advantage of custom joints is they give you more control over the behavior of joint than the build in joints.

Docs

Joints
These are the built in joints that are part of the NGD engine. Joints are objects that bind two physical objects together. A hinge is an example of a real life and a NGD joint.

Material
Materials help define how physical object behave when they collide with each other. One example is you can define the amount of friction that exists between two materials when they come in contact with each other. Once you've defined your materials, you can then assign them to your physical objects.

Ragdoll
A ragdoll joint is a custom joint used to simulate a dying or falling character. Ragdolls are made up of multiple rigid bodies connected together by joints. These joints are constrained so to limit them movement of the torso, limbs, etc of the ragdoll. This help make dying animation scene look realistic.

Vehicle
A vehicle joint is a custom joint to to simulate a multi wheeled vehicle.

<unfiled>
You will also find several classed not filed in a subfolder. These classes perform various function and some of them are core to the operation of NGD. Some of them will be covered in this tutorial and the rest in later tutorials

Updated Wiki: Installation

ngdrascal — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:21:13 GMT

Installation

Install Newton Game Dynamics

Download and install Newton Game Dynamics
Make sure newton.dll, and JointLibrary.dll are in your path.

NOTE: Ngd4Xna only works the single precision libraries.

Install Ngd4Xna

Download Ngd4Xna from here http://www.codeplex.com/ngd4xna
Ngd4Xna is delivered in a .zip file. To install Ngd4Xna just unzip it into a directory of your choice.

Updated Release: Ngd4Xna v2.0 Beta 17 rev. 0

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:47:52 GMT

Additional fixes and features.

Created Release: Ngd4Xna v2.0 Beta 16 rev. 1

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:39:14 GMT

Additional fixes and features.

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:31:22 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Open Visual Studio and load the Ngd4Xna solution. Now look at the solution explorer tab in Visual Studio. You’ll see the structure of the solution is several demo projects listed toward the top and at the bottom is the Ngd4Xna project. We'll be focusing on the Ngd4Xna project. The Ngd4Xna project is organized into folders. Classes in the same folder perform similar functions.

Collisions
A collision represents the shape of a physical object. It is used by the collision detection subsystem of NGD to determine when physical objects in your game collide. Collisions don't have mass, velocity, etc. These properties are part the rigid body the collision is associated with.

Custom Joint
NGD comes with a set of built in joints. It also come with the source code for several custom joints. The source code for these custom joints has been ported to C#. The advantage of custom joints is they give you more control over the behavior of joint than the build in joints.

Docs

Joints
These are the built in joints that are part of the NGD engine. Joints are objects that bind two physical objects together. A hinge is an example of a real life and a NGD joint.

Material
Materials help define how physical object behave when they collide with each other. One example is you can define the amount of friction that exists between two materials when they come in contact with each other. Once you've defined your materials, you can then assign them to you physical objects.

Ragdoll
A ragdoll joint is a custom joint used to simulate a dying or falling character. Ragdolls are made up of multiple rigid bodies connected together by joints. These joints are constrained so to limit them movement of the torso, limbs, etc of the ragdoll. This help make dying animation scene look realistic.

Vehicle
A vehicle joint is a custom joint to to simulate a multi wheeled vehicle.

<unfiled>
You will also find several classed not filed in a subfolder. These classes perform various function and some of them are core to the operation of NGD. Some of them will be covered in this tutorial and the rest in later tutorials

Updated Wiki: Installation

ngdrascal — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:36:13 GMT

Installation

Install Newton Game Dynamics

Download and install Newton Gamed Dynamics
Make sure newton.dll, and JointLibrary.dll are in your path.

NOTE: Ngd4Xna only works the single precision libraries.

Install Ngd4Xna

Download Ngd4Xna from here http://www.codeplex.com/ngd4xna
Ngd4Xna is delivered in a .zip file. To install Ngd4Xna just unzip it into a directory of your choice.

Updated Wiki: Getting Started

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:20 GMT

Getting Started with Ngd4Xna

Installation

Tutorials

Tutorial 1 Hello Newton!

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:58:15 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Open Visual Studio and load the Ngd4Xna solution. Now look at the solution explorer tab in Visual Studio. You’ll see the structure of the solution is several demo projects listed toward the top and at the bottom is the Ngd4Xna project. We'll be focusing on the Ngd4Xna project. The Ngd4Xna project is organized into folders. Classes in the same folder perform similar functions.

Collisions
A collision represents the shape of a physical object. It is used by the collision detection subsystem of NGD to determine when physical objects in your game collide. Collisions don't have mass, velocity, etc. These properties are part the rigid body the collision is associated with.

Custom Joint
NGD comes with a set of built in joints. It also come with the source code for several custom joints. The source code for these custom joints has been ported to C#. The advantage of custom joints is they give you more control over the behavior of joint than the build in joints.

Docs

Joints
These are the built in joints that are part of the NGD engine. Joints are objects that bind two physical objects together. A hinge is an example of a real life and a NGD joint.

Material
Materials help define how physical object behave when they collide with each other. One example is you can define the amount of friction that exists between two materials when they come in contact with each other. Once you've defined your materials, you can then assign them to you physical objects.

Ragdoll
A ragdoll joint is a custom joint used to simulate a dying or falling character. Ragdolls are made up of multiple rigid bodies connected together by joints. These joints are constrained so to limit them movement of the torso, limbs, etc of the ragdoll. This help make dying animation scene look realistic.

Vehicle
A vehicle joint is a custom joint to to simulate a multi wheeled vehicle.

<unfiled>
You will also find several classed not filed in a subfolder. These classes perform various function and some of them are core to the operation of NGD. Some of them will be covered in this tutorial and the rest in later tutorials

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:57:21 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Open Visual Studio and load the Ngd4Xna solution. Now look at the solution explorer tab in Visual Studio. You’ll see the structure of the solution is several demo projects listed toward the top and at the bottom is the Ngd4Xna project. We'll be focusing on the Ngd4Xna project. The Ngd4Xna project is organized into folders. Classes in the same folder perform similar functions.

Collisions
A collision represents the shape of a physical object. It is used by the collision detection subsystem of NGD to determine when physical objects in your game collide. Collisions don't have mass, velocity, etc. These properties are part the rigid body the collision is associated with.
Custom Joint
NGD comes with a set of built in joints. It also come with the source code for several custom joints. The source code for these custom joints has been ported to C#. The advantage of custom joints is they give you more control over the behavior of joint than the build in joints.
Docs

Joints
These are the built in joints that are part of the NGD engine. Joints are objects that bind two physical objects together. A hinge is an example of a real life and a NGD joint.
Material
Materials help define how physical object behave when they collide with each other. One example is you can define the amount of friction that exists between two materials when they come in contact with each other. Once you've defined your materials, you can then assign them to you physical objects.
Ragdoll
A ragdoll joint is a custom joint used to simulate a dying or falling character. Ragdolls are made up of multiple rigid bodies connected together by joints. These joints are constrained so to limit them movement of the torso, limbs, etc of the ragdoll. This help make dying animation scene look realistic.
Vehicle
A vehicle joint is a custom joint to to simulate a multi wheeled vehicle.
<unfiled>
You will also find several classed not filed in a subfolder. These classes perform various function and some of them are core to the operation of NGD. Some of them will be covered in this tutorial and the rest in later tutorials

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:53:41 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Collisions

A collision represents the shape of a physical object. It is used by the collision detection subsystem of NGD to determine when physical objects in your game collide. Collisions don't have mass, velocity, etc. These properties are part the rigid body the collision is associated with.

Custom Joint

NGD comes with a set of built in joints. It also come with the source code for several custom joints. The source code for these custom joints has been ported to C#. The advantage of custom joints is they give you more control over the behavior of joint than the build in joints.

Docs

Joints

These are the built in joints that are part of the NGD engine. Joints are objects that bind two physical objects together. A hinge is an example of a real life and a NGD joint.

Material

Materials help define how physical object behave when they collide with each other. One example is you can define the amount of friction that exists between two materials when they come in contact with each other. Once you've defined your materials, you can then assign them to you physical objects.

Ragdoll

A ragdoll joint is a custom joint used to simulate a dying or falling character. Ragdolls are made up of multiple rigid bodies connected together by joints. These joints are constrained so to limit them movement of the torso, limbs, etc of the ragdoll. This help make dying animation scene look realistic.

Vehicle

A vehicle joint is a custom joint to to simulate a multi wheeled vehicle.

<unfiled>

You will also find several classed not filed in a subfolder. These classes perform various function and some of them are core to the operation of NGD. Some of them will be covered in this tutorial and the rest in later tutorials

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:51:37 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Collisions

Custom Joint

Docs

Joints

These are the built in joints that are part of the NGD engine. Joints are objects that bind two physical objects together. A hinge is an example of a real life and a NGD joint.

Material

Ragdoll

Vehicle

A vehicle joint is a custom joint to to simulate a multi wheeled vehicle.

<unfiled>

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:29:05 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Collisions

A collision represents the shape of a physical object. It is used by the collision detection subsystem of NGD to determine when physical objects in your game collide. Collisions don't have mass, velocity, etc. The properties are part the body the collision is associated with.

Custom Joint

Docs

Joints

These are the built in joints that are part of the NGD engine. Joints are objects that bind two physical objects together. A hinge is an example of a real life and a NGD joint.

Material

Ragdoll

Vehicle

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:01:10 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

Updated Wiki: Installation

ngdrascal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:50:26 GMT

Installation

Install Newton Game Dynamics

Download and install Newton Gamed Dynamics
Make sure newton.dll, and JointLibrary.dll are in your path.

NOTE: Ngd4Xna only works the the single percision libaries.

Install Ngd4Xna

Download Ngd4Xna from here http://www.codeplex.com/ngd4xna
Ngd4Xna is delivered in a .zip file. To intall Ngd4Xna just unzip it into a directory of your choice.

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:22:36 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework and what they do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

If you look at the solution explorer tab in Visual Studio you’ll see the structure of the solution is several demo projects listed toward the top and at the bottom is the Ngd4Xna project. We'll be focusing on the Ngd4Xna project. The Ngd4Xna project is organized into folders. These folders hold class that perform similar functions.

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:18:32 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework and what they do
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.

Prerequisites

The structure of Ngd4Xna

If you look at the solution explorer tab in Visual Studio you’ll see the structure of the solution is several demo projects listed toward the top and at the bottom is the Ngd4Xna project. The Ngd4Xna project is organized into folders. These folders hold class that perform similar functions.

Updated Wiki: Tutorial 1

ngdrascal — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:11:15 GMT

Tutorial 1 - Hello Newton!

Purpose

This tutorial introduces the Ngd4Xna framework. You will learn the following items:

What the various components of the framework are
How to create a new project using the template provided with the framework

At the end of the tutorial you will have created your first working program using the Ngd4Xna framework.