OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Colden Cullen via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 20:46:43 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 5/19/14, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Btw, I'm currently porting the Box2D physics engine to D.
>
> For a second there I thought Dash was a 2D game engine, but 
> it's a 3D
> one, which is awesome! 2D physics can still be used with 3D 
> graphics
> to some great effect. But ultimately I would really want us to 
> have a
> 3D physics engine.
>
> I've been eyeing the Bullet physics engine. There have been 
> several
> attempts at writing bindings, but I think we (s/we/I) should 
> make a
> port instead. It will definitely take some work though. Porting 
> Box2D
> took me personally about two days of work (~20Kloc C++ 
> codebase),
> Bullet is ~150Kloc, but using things like regex for conversion
> wouldn't scale here. Using a modified parser such as Daniel 
> Murphy's
> magicport or a C++ parser based on DScanner would probably work.
>
> Anyway, I'm just rumbling out loud here to some of my future 
> plans.
> All of this will likely take a longer initial delay because I'm
> relocating soon, so things will be hectic. :)

Good to hear about Box2D! We just had someone approach us about 
using our engine for a 2D physics based game, so we'll definitely 
point him in your direction.

As far as bullet goes, that would be amazing, but definitely no 
small undertaking. We talked about it internally, but decided it 
wasn't worth the time for just trying to get Dash off the ground. 
You should know, though, that if you do it, you'll have at least 
one user :)