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QuickBox2D Tutorial

By Zevan | January 27, 2010

Today the first part of a 3 part QuickBox2D tutorial went live on active.tutsplus.com

It’s an intro tutorial, so it just scratches the surface. Part 2 digs a bit deeper and part 3 covers complex stuff like joints and contacts…. (part 2 and 3 will be posted sometime in the near future).

Check it out here…

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QuickBox2D Update On the Way

By Zevan | January 15, 2010

Been meaning to mention that I’m going to release an updated version of QuickBox2D in the next few days… It will have two minor bug fixes, one or two minor new features and will work with the latest version of Box2D…

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Four by Four

By Zevan | December 14, 2009

Two years ago I had an idea for a programming experiment. After writing a proof of concept in Processing, I never did anything else with it. A few weeks back I decided to revisit the project and I created a finalized version. Have a look at it here (the instructions are important so be sure to read them):

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QuickBox2D Custom Debug Draw

By Zevan | November 18, 2009
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Actionscript:
  1. import com.actionsnippet.qbox.*;
  2. import Box2D.Dynamics.*
  3.  
  4. stage.frameRate = 60;
  5.  
  6. var sim:QuickBox2D = new QuickBox2D(this, {debug:true});
  7.  
  8. // get at the b2DebugDraw instance
  9. var debug:b2DebugDraw = sim.w.m_debugDraw;
  10. debug.m_drawScale = 30.0;
  11. debug.m_fillAlpha = 0.5;
  12. debug.m_alpha = 0.5;
  13. debug.m_lineThickness = 1.0;
  14. debug.m_drawFlags = 0xFF;
  15.  
  16. sim.createStageWalls();  
  17.  
  18. for (var i:int = 0; i<10; i++){
  19.   sim.addBox({x:3 + i, y:3 + i, width:2, height:0.5});
  20. }
  21. sim.addCircle({x:12, y:5, radius:2});
  22.  
  23. sim.start();
  24. sim.mouseDrag();

Note: This snippet requires the QuickBox2D library

This snippet shows an easy way to get at the settings for Box2D's debug renderer.


Have a look at the swf...

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