Comments on: Creating Complex Shapes in Box2D UPDATED

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:50:16 +0000

You can also check out my box2d editor. It has a live preview. exports as3 xml and does tons of stuff. http://www.jacobschatz.com/bisonkick
Currently implementing joints into it. It uses 2.1a so @linto you should check that out.

By: linto

linto — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:48:54 +0000

How to do the same in the latest box2d api? I couldn’t accomplish this with new api. Could anybody help me to do the same in new api.
Thanks a lot,
LINTO

By: wouter

wouter — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:17:41 +0000

hello,

I have spent some time recently implementing a very simple bare bones editor which spits out xml to create complex shapes in box2d.

in this version you can grab the xml from the [process xml] button

might be usefull to someone.

http://www.nuvorm.nl/start/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=40&Itemid=53

By: ben

ben — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:10:38 +0000

Hi and Congrats for your work. I’m new to Box2D but found it very cool but not always efficient for my as scripter reflex so the first thing I’ve done yesterday after playing with this wonderfull API was to create a
getBodyByName() method to allow easier way to get a body than iterating trough the famous list.

As you seems an old user would you be interested to have a look and tell me …
whatever …
thanks

By: Brettf

Brettf — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:17:49 +0000

I was lazy and didn’t optimize the code. It doesn’t do anything at the moment but you could feed it into the dbgDraw object as the debug draw area. This way you can separate it from things inside m_sprite. Good eyes guys.

By: BigP

BigP — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:13:35 +0000

Hmm good point, I’ve noticed that too. I’ve modified the example and used it right against the Document Class sprite instead and worked fine!

I’m guessing he actually wanted to assign it to the dbgDraw.m_sprite property… then again that’s like… two sub-child Sprites…. an explanation would of been helpful for sure.

But this is definitely a great beginner Tutorial for Box2D users, and for APE users transitioning to Box2D.

By: Eric Smith

Eric Smith — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:41:32 +0000

Thanks for your tips. Box2D help is a gold mine, especially coming from APE.

Curious, what are you using dbgSprite for? You add it to the m_sprite, then never touch it again…