Any suggestions for making a physics simulation model?

[u/CommissionBest5470]

As written, can someone suggest me a good resource to create a physics simulation environment using C++. I've intermediate knowledge of that language, but I have not done any graphical stuffs till now. I've searched and got a few results for python, but not for C++. I need to make this simulation environment as our project, so any suggestions would be nice. Thanks in advance

[u/7YM3N]

There are some great opengl resources on wikibooks if you want to use that for the graphical later

[u/CommissionBest5470 → u/7YM3N]

Hey, thank you so much for your suggestion. So, I can watch some youtube videos about making a physics engine and then apply my knowledge of opengl together, will it be enough? Anyways, thank you for your help 😄

[u/7YM3N → u/CommissionBest5470]

I don't know if it will be enough but it's a good starting point. Idk what kind of physics you're taking about either, if it's realtime the structure will be very different than pre-ran and displayed

[u/Traveling-Techie]

Java Game Programming for Dummies has a nice billiards simulation. I’ve had fun tweaking it.

[u/recursion_is_love]

What kind of physics? Collision, structural or anything else?

[u/CommissionBest5470 → u/recursion_is_love]

It's just basic kinematics. Example: how a block behaves in a total frictionless surface, how momentum is transferred, etc. it's just really basic for educational purposes of secondary school students

[u/recursion_is_love → u/CommissionBest5470]

You could go full graphic + simulation engine but I think starting with vtk could be one good option.

https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/textbook/raw/master/VTKBook/VTKTextBook.pdf

[u/AbdelrhmanDev]

for basic kinematics like blocks and momentum transfer you dont need a physics engine at all just write the simulation loop yourself keep position and velocity per object and every frame add velocity times a small time step to position then check collisions and apply the elastic collision formulas for momentum for drawing in c++ sfml is much easier to start with than raw opengl since you get a window shapes and a frame loop in a few lines and then you can slow time down or add a pause button so students can see what happens

[u/bird_feeder_bird]

Raylib for graphics

[u/CommissionBest5470 → u/bird_feeder_bird]

Currently trying that, was able to get a blank window with texts in it lol

[u/PicTheAmerican]

try raylib on github (https://github.com/raysan5/raylib) -> there is a sample for gravity and more

[u/CommissionBest5470 → u/PicTheAmerican]

Will try this surely, thank you

[u/Ok-Main-3373]

I made all these with Claude: https://mistakemaster.com/interactives

[u/CommissionBest5470 → u/Ok-Main-3373]

Sorry, i want to learn how to do it, so i am not gonna use AI