PAL : Demo

This is a simple demonstration program for PAL. It contains a few small examples allowing you to drop different objects, test out different links, drop rag dolls, and build stacks on various terrain configurations.

Download:

Source code: In CVS.
Win32 binary.

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PAL : BenchMark Demo

This is a non interactive demonstration program for the PAL benchmark test set. It contains a few examples from the full test set. The visualizations are rendered via irrlicht. This demonstrates the different behaviors of each engine for some of the benchmark tests. An article explaining the test set up is available from the ACM library Evaluation of real-time physics simulation systems

Download:

YouTube video EuroGraphics Physics (Sep. 2007).
XVID video (1.6mb). (xvid codec)
Win32 binary.
Source code: In CVS. Module "pal_benchmark", palDemoMark. (requires Irrlicht and PAL)

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PAL : BenchMark

Interactive benchmark graphs

This is the full set of benchmark tests. Some tests are based on a report by Axel Seugling, Martin Rolin at The Department of Computing Science, Umeå University. Most of the Seugling and Rolin test were designed by Claude Lacoursière. The test results, and additional comparison information are described in Evaluation of real-time physics simulation systems.
Output from the PAL tests are written to CSV files for analysis in external packages.
Tests include:

'collision' - Collision detection and penetration test
'drop' - Integrator test
'friction' - Material static friction test
'game level' - Large mesh, objects, and gravity values test
'links' - Constraints test
'momentum' - Conservation of momentum test
'restitution' - Material restitution test
'stack' - Object stacking test
'stress' - Large number of colliding objects test

Download:

Source code: In CVS. Module "pal_benchmark". (requires SDL and PAL)
Win32 binary: (coming soon...)

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PAL : COLLADA Demo

This is the COLLADA loader for PAL. It is based from the lightweight COLLADA loader by John Ratcliff. The PAL version of the COLLADA loader does not support all COLLADA physics functionality, just a sub-set.

Source code: In CVS. Module "pal_collada". (requires SDL and PAL and TinyXML)
Win32 binary: Win32 binary.

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PAL : Scythe Demo

This is the Scythe Physics Editor loader for PAL. This was contributed by Pål Ruud. The PAL version of the Scythe loader does not support all Scythe functionality, just a sub-set.

Source code: In CVS. Module "pal_scythe". (requires SDL and PAL)
Win32 binary: Win32 binary.