[needs-packaging] Bullet Physics Library

[Cosme Domínguez]

Wikipedia info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_(software)

Bullet is an open source (zlib license) software multi-threaded 3D collision detection, soft body and rigid body dynamics library (physics engine) for games and visual effects in film.

Features:
  * Rigid body and soft body simulation with discrete and continuous collision detection
  * Collision shapes include: sphere, box, cylinder, cone, convex hull using GJK, non-convex and triangle mesh
  * Soft body support: cloth, rope and deformable objects
  * A rich set of rigid body and soft body constraints with constraint limits and motors
  * Plugins for Maya, Houdini, integrated into Cinema 4D and Blender and import of COLLADA 1.4 physics content
  * Optional optimizations for PlayStation 3 Cell SPU, CUDA and OpenCL

Here are some games using Bullet created by professional game developers for video game console or other platforms:

    * Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption by Rockstar Games.
    * Trials HD by RedLynx.
    * Free Realms by Sony Online Entertainment.
    * HotWheels: Battle Force 5.
    * Gravitronix.
    * Madagascar Kartz published by Activision.
    * Crayola Colorful Journey by Crave Games.
    * Regnum Online by ngd Studios. An MMORPG which in its latest major update its physics engine was replaced by Bullet.
    * Puzzle Dimension by Doctor Entertainment AB. A 3D puzzle game which uses Bullet Physics to handle collisions and dynamics.

Several Hollywood movie studios are using Bullet rigid body simulation for special effects in commercial films, to name a few:
    * 2012 by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
    * Hancock by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
    * Bolt by Walt Disney Animation Studios used Bullet in their Dynamica Maya plugin.

Homepage: http://bulletphysics.org
Downloads: http://code.google.com/p/bullet/downloads/list

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

REVU link: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/bullet

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

Regarding to

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bullet&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

the bullet library is available on Ubuntu12.10 Quantal.

You can find it in software-center with the search term "libbullet".

Closing this here as fix released.

If there is from anyone the wish to get bullet backportet to a previous Ubuntu version, please get involved following this guide(and open a separate backporting request):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

greetings

melchiaros

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P.S: Parts of the source of bullet are included in the 3D modeller blender, which is able to do physics simulations. -> 3D modelling requires in first stage no programming abilities, but is time consuming in other ways. Books and video tutorials are availabe on commercial channels(and free).