1999 Game Developer Magazine Article Companion

The following applications and source code samples are for educational purposes only! Use at your own risk. Any helpful comments can be addressed to jeffl@darwin3d.com.

December 1999: 2D Water Effects November 1999: Blob Modeling October 1999: Skeletal Deformation September 1999: Pool Table Physics August 1999: The Trials of Tribology May 1999: Cloth Simulation April 1999: Soft Body Particle Dynamics Part 2 - Better Integration March 1999: Soft Body Particle Dynamics January 1999: 2D Collision Detection

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December 1999: 2D Water Effects

Source Code and Exe (368KB)
2D Water Ripples

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November 1999: Blob Modeling

Source Code and Exe (161KB)
Blob Modeling

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October 1999: Skeletal Deformation

Source Code and Exe (357KB)
Article in PDF format
Skeletal Deformation in OpenGL

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September 1999: Pool Table Physics

Source Code and Exe (185kb)
Article in PDF format
Pool Table Physics

Warning: Not a game. Just a demo to show how billiard physics can be approached. Only two balls with no pockets but it could be made into a game pretty darn easy. I'll leave that up to you for now. What do you want, it's free?

August 1999: The Trials of Tribology: Friction Forces in the Particle System

Source Code and Exe (233KB)
Article in PDF format
Friction Forces using Mass and Spring System

May 1999: Cloth Simulation using Mass and Spring System

Source Code and Exe (205KB)
Article in PDF format
Cloth Simulation using Mass and Spring System

April 1999: Particle Dynamics Part 2 - Better Integration

Source Code and Exe (190KB)
Article in PDF format
3D Particle Dynamics Simulator with Better Integration

There was a typo in the images showing the deviation for different integrators. The numbers should have been

March 1999: Particle Dynamics

Source Code and Exe (190KB)
Article in PDF format
3D Particle Dynamics Simulator

January 1999: 2D Collision

Source Code and Exe (260KB)
Article in PDF format
2D Collision Detection Demo