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46 lines
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%Use the \path{Demos/MyDemo} instead of \texttt{Demos/MyDemo} otherwise text doesn't wrap
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%and runs into the right margin
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\chapter{Introduction to Bullet}
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%\section{blablaIntroduction}
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Bullet Physics is a professional open source collision detection, rigid body and soft body dynamics library. The library is free for commercial use under the \index{zlib license} \href{http://opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php}{zlib license}.
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\section{Main Features}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Open source C++ code under zlib license and free for any commercial use on all platforms including PLAYSTATION 3, XBox 360, Wii, PC, Linux, Mac OSX, Android and iPhone
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\item Discrete and continuous collision detection including ray and convex sweep test. Collision shapes include concave and convex meshes and all basic primitives
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\item Fast and stable rigid body dynamics constraint solver, vehicle dynamics, character controller and slider, hinge, generic 6DOF and cone twist constraint for ragdolls
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\item Soft Body dynamics for cloth, rope and deformable volumes with two-way interaction with rigid bodies, including constraint support
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\item Maya Dynamica plugin, Blender integration, COLLADA physics import/export support
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\end{itemize}
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\section{Contact and Support}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Public forum for support and feedback is available at \url{http://bulletphysics.org}
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\item PLAYSTATION 3 licensed developers can download an optimized version for Cell SPU through Sony \href{https://ps3.scedev.net/projects/spubullet}{PS3 Devnet}.
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\end{itemize}
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\section{What's new}
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\subsection{New in Bullet 2.81}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item SIMD and Neon optimizations for iOS and Mac OSX, thanks to a contribution from Apple
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\item Rolling Friction using a constraint, thanks to Erin Catto for the idea. See \path{Demos/RollingFrictionDemo/RollingFrictionDemo.cpp}
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\item XML serialization. See \path{Bullet/Demos/BulletXmlImportDemo} and \path{Bullet/Demos/SerializeDemo}
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\item Gear constraint. See \path{Bullet/Demos/ConstraintDemo}.
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\item Improved continuous collision response, feeding speculative contacts to the constraint solver. See \path{Bullet/Demos/CcdPhysicsDemo}
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\item Improved premake4 build system including support for Mac OSX, Linux and iOS
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\item Refactoring of collision detection pipeline using stack allocation instead of modifying the collision object. This will allow better future multithreading optimizations.
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\end{itemize}
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\section{Building the Bullet SDK and demos}
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Windows developers can download the zipped sources of Bullet from \url{http://bullet.googlecode.com}. Mac OS X, Linux and other developers should download the gzipped tar archive.
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\subsection{Using premake with Visual Studio}
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After unzipping the source code, you can open the \path{Bullet/build} directory and double click on \path{vs2010.bat} to generate Visual Studio 2010 project files and solution. Just open \path{Bullet/build/vs2010/0BulletSolution.sln}
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\subsection{Using premake with Xcode for Mac OSX or iOS}
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\subsection{Using cmake}
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\subsection{Using autotools}
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