Chipmunk for Javascript!

This is a port of the Chipmunk Physics library to Javascript!

Check out the sexy demos! (Surprisingly, works best in Safari)

Caveats

• It is slower than the C version (duh, its in javascript). Specifically, physics simulations using chipmunk-js runs about 3 times slower than the C equivalent.
• I haven't implemented chipmunk's spatial hash, and I have no intention to do so.
• The feature set is lagged a little from the real Chipmunk library. Chipmunk-js currently corresponds to Chipmunk 6.1.1 published in August 2012.

Usage

The API for Chipmunk-js is almost identical to chipmunk-physics. Except:

• The cp prefix has been replaced by a cp namespace. (Eg, cpvadd(a, b) becomes cp.vadd(a, b).)
• Most functions are wrapped by their containing objects
• Some functions took an array-and-length. Arrays are now all simply javascript arrays, and the length argument has been removed. Eg:

cpMomentForPoly(mass, numVerts, *verts, offset);

becomes:

cp.momentForPoly(mass, verts, offset);

• Lots of trivial getters and setters have been removed.
• Lists of verticies are described using a flattened JS array of [x1,y1, x2,y2, ...] instead of an array of objects. For example, use [0,0, 0,1, 1,1, 1,0] instead of [cp.v(0,0), cp.v(0,1), cp.v(1,1), cp.v(1,0)].

On a website

<script src="cp.min.js"></script>

<script>
var space = new cp.Space();
space.addBody(new cp.Body(...))
// ...
</script>

If any exceptions are thrown or anything, use cp.js instead of cp.min.js and post the stack trace you get to the issue page.

From nodejs

npm install chipmunk

cp = require('chipmunk');

var space = new cp.Space();
space.addBody(new cp.Body(...))
// ...

Example

This code creates a new space, sets 10 physics iterations per update (these increase simulation stability). Then it adds a bunch of line segments to the space.

In C, this code looked like:

  cpSpace *space = cpSpaceNew();
  space->iterations = 10;
  
  cpVect offset = cpv(-320, -240);
  for(int i=0; i<(bouncy_terrain_count - 1); i++){
    cpVect a = bouncy_terrain_verts[i], b = bouncy_terrain_verts[i+1];
    cpShape *shape = cpSpaceAddShape(space, cpSegmentShapeNew(cpSpaceGetStaticBody(space), cpvadd(a, offset), cpvadd(b, offset), 0.0f));
    cpShapeSetElasticity(shape, 1.0f);
  }

In javascript, the equivalent code is:

  var space = new cp.Space();
  space.iterations = 10;
  
  var offset = cp.v(-320, -240);
  for(var i=0; i<(bouncy_terrain_verts.length - 1); i++){
    var a = bouncy_terrain_verts[i], b = bouncy_terrain_verts[i+1];
    var shape = space.addShape(new cp.SegmentShape(space.staticBody, cp.vadd(a, offset), cp.vadd(b, offset), 0));
    shape.setElasticity(1);
  }

License

Like Chipmunk, chipmunk-js is MIT licensed.

Copyright (c) 2007 Scott Lembcke and Joseph Gentle

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