Week 0 : Introduction and Research

Hello! For my next project I intend to build a 3D physics engine in C++ and integrate it into the Game engine framework that I worked on. https://baruahabhijit97.wixsite.com/website/custom-game-engine

Additionally a friend of mine worked on the engine and integrated a mesh renderer component into the game engine. I will be using his version of the game engine.

The goal of this project is to familiarize myself with 3D math and working with a large codebase and adding functionality to it. For the first week I mainly researched into the types of physics that game engines use.

For this project I have decided to stick to Rigidbody , deterministic physics.

For my research I used the following links to understand about the physics equations, collisions and the design/architecture that I might use :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_(software)

https://blog.winter.dev/2020/designing-a-physics-engine/

https://www.toptal.com/game/video-game-physics-part-ii-collision-detection-for-solid-objects

For the next week I aim to develop the Rigidbody class and enable adding a rigidbody to a gameobject.

Stay tuned for more!