2D Physics Engine! // Code Review

[@TheCherno]

And so the trilogy comes to an end. I’m gonna need fresh code so make sure you send it in! And in the meantime, keep exploring at brilliant.org/TheCherno/ Get started for free, and hurry-the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.

[@TL-Edu-r]

Help please !

[@ng.h9315]

Amazing Course's 👏♥️ Thanks Cherno!

[@dylanwilliams9860]

KZbin needs a submissions system the creator can "open" and "close" at will. So many reviewers would benefit... Also C/C++ code only for the submissions?

[@danilomitrovic3954]

Triology :"The Milkening!!!"😅😅😂😂😂

[@ryans9094]

How on earth he can look at, understand, see what's wrong with and fix everything in seconds is amazing to me. I strive to be this good in the future.

[@AirAKose]

Experience and familiarity. Once you've looked at enough code, you pick up on patterns and common problems - and get better at recognizing them Familiarity with the tools + ease of navigation through the code helps immensely as well

[@Mcdude22]

I hope to be this good at *literally anything* someday

[@cyberchef8344]

Keep at it - if you spend ~2 years writing c++ regularly you would be able to spot all of the same issues.

[@rmt3589]

Have hundreds of nights where it's broken, you can't fix it, you go to bed, then in the morning you solve it.

[@eliogonzalez6822]

Review the code many times before making the video?

[@Stowy]

Once again thanks a lot for the code review, I learned a lot ! I'll definetly try to improve it in the future :) For the space partitionning, I mostly did it because our school told us it's a good idea to try it (to learn what it is, how it works etc), but it's true that i've never tried to test and measure if that brings performance improvements haha

[@xeridea]

If you would like to learn quadtrees, there is a good video by OneLoneCoder.

[@Dr-Zed]

I'm not doing any game development. These videos are still very educational and I can't stop watching.

[@tyuchevv341]

These video's are incredible Cherno! I'm studying CS & Game programming and its fascinating to see you dissect others projects/code & suggest improvements. It really helps me think about my own implementations!

[@SoDamnMetal]

25:37 Oh damn, straight through the heart with that one!

[@on-hv9co]

A partitioning technique I've come to love is using a grid with BVHs. the grid takes care of the global partitioning and the BVHs take care of the local partitioning inside the cell. and a benefit of using the grid is that checking the "next" cell means that the "next" cell can avoid the previous cell check meaning that if you begin at some corner you can grow outward along the cells and perform only 4 checks per cell instead of 8

[@LULEIVON]

9:06 - I guess that RigidBody() situation is why some of us were taught to camelcase and include a verbs in function names. 😅

[@slygamer01]

The adding of the rigid body to the dynamic world would be done in the derived classes so they can set further properties on the rigid body before it is added to the world.

[@SeanJMay]

The full Knuth Quote, from The Art of Computer Programming is: “The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.” In full context, he’s actually getting at the worries you illustrate; it's just been co-opted by people who use it out of context (often to the opposite effect). This isn't the only misunderstood quote like that by a long-shot. “KISS” usually makes me furious, when I hear it from a manager.

[@zhivkobogdanov2845]

One comment that could be added to the grid implementation, which is typically seen, is that you could totally avoid having the triple nested `std::vector`s by converting the 2D index into a 1D array index and vice versa.

[@hbobenicio]

I'd give a 9 or 9.5 for this. Very good code, much better than lots of dev mates I've worked with lol. Good series too

[@bunpasi]

Be careful with using a grid system when calculating collisions. A large object can span even outside of the surrounding blocks. Look for example at the long horizontal bar in the demo.

[@Stowy]

In my implementation i look a the bouding box of the collider, and add the object in every cell it's overlaping, to avoid this problem

[@saeedbarari2207]

"I'm banning myself from talking about anything except physics" *2 seconds later* "it's good that you have different classes for collision and solvers because it's always good to..."

[@Moonz97]

Awesome trilogy! I'm amused with your annotation skills; could you share what software you are using @34:00 to draw the red annotations?

[@bluesillybeard]

As for the rating, I would say having a rubric would be great. For example, points could be rewarded for having better memory management, or having better/more useful comments, etc.

[@nielsdaemen]

Basically collisions are O(n^2) and sorting all the objects into a grid will be O(n)

[@vectoralphaSec]

I know NOTHING about game engines, and having watched your videos for a couple of weeks i feel like youre really knowledgeable and the person to ask. Was just wondering with your experience what you think is the "Easiest" Game engine to use to build games for a complete beginner to games development? I have programming experience just never worked in game dev. What do you think are the easiest to use game engines to build games for beginners like me? Anyway love the content.

[@Wolferey]

What game engine you use really comes down to 3 parts: type, resources, community. - What type of game are you making? 2d? 3d? rpg? visual novel? c++? c#? etc., if you know what type of game you are making then it'll naturally narrow down your game engine choices. - Resources, like their own documentation, youtube tutorials, samples etc. the bigger game engines like unity, unreal, godot have lots of resources which will naturally make it easier for you to make a game. - Community, which can go both ways. Big engines have big communities so there is lots of information you can find, but it might actually be harder to ask and get help when you are starting out versus a smaller engine where everyone wants to help because they want more people using their engine. In the end, game engines are just tools, figure out what kind of tool you need and then test out the selection you can find, the "easiest" game engine out of those will be whichever fits those 3 parts. If you don't know what type of game you are making, then any popular game engine will probably have lots of resources and a solid community for you to start learning, those will be the "eaiser" ones until you get more experience and hit the bounds of what the engine can do.

[@bluesillybeard]

I would say Godot or Unity, but as @Wolferey said, it really depends on what kind of game that you are going to make.

[@leonardoguarilha9293]

Hey Cherno, What is your VS Theme?

[@Spartan322]

18:29 Even just a spatial hash grid would be pretty simple here.

[@benhetland576]

30:03 IMO a pointer type IS boolean by its very nature, at least in C++ and in C. This is because it either "points" (to something) or it doesn't point to anything (=nullptr). This is the traditional idiomatic way of using pointers in both of those languages, so the way you illustrated it can be done is the way to go! Many prefer to write stuff like "if (ptr != nullptr) ..." or even "if (flag == true) ...", but I would argue that those are tautologies that do nothing good while even reducing readability at the same time.

[@MrVintarb]

No it could be much more complicated scenarios. For example, tagged pointers.

[@shaiavraham2910]

What software do you use to zoom and annotate the screen when explaining things? I know it was already asked and he mentioned it in some video, but I can't remember where.

[@hugoalmeida1291]

Cherno this theme you're using in your vs code is awesome. How can we get it?

[@Exodius1999]

Hey cherno, have you ever used CUDA?

[@ZihadJoy]

create a new series of making a 2d physics engine

[@Solemn_Lemon]

I own pointers

[@ScorpioHR]

Cherno doing code review is like little red riding hood in the flower field. The difference is, when he gets too far into the dark forest, Big Bad Wolf runs away

[@theonetribble5867]

I learned programming C/C++ and thought I understood pointers/references. Then I learned Rust and now when programming in C/C++ I always get Anxiety working with pointers because I can't guarantee that the code is safe.

[@medul8039]

im in your walls

[@lolcat69]

I am making a game engine, so maybe I will implement this physics engine and I'll scrap what I have now ( is not even a physics engine, like, is just AABB Collision detection ) xd

[@isakthehackervlogs]

6:52 And that is why you NEVER begin your functions with a capital letter. Only Types begin with a Capital letter!

[@user-hz4tc2pf3x]

Seems like Cherno whatched some Handmade Hero

[@GamingDemiurge]

What about using a reference instead of a raw pointer in the map?

[@__hannibaal__]

These programmer need to return to mathematics, i mean hard mathematics, set theory, GROUP Theory, Logic and prédicat calculus, Number theory and graph with topology theory is very helpful if we interpreted to Program, and it will beautiful program . Check with Stepanov; and first programmer all Mathematicians when there no CS.

[@marcotroster8247]

Dude, idk why C++ devs love their inheritance so much even when it makes no sense at all 😅 Most of the classes are malformed, contain weird operations that don't fit there, etc. TDD/DDD exist for a reason 😅

[@AdonaiDio]

Every time I see you coding your Game Rngine, I think how difficult it is to make a Game Engine in this modern standard aimed at retro consoles like GBA, MegaDrive...?🤔

[@joysaha3927]

Where is your cat cherno?😞😞

[@anon_y_mousse]

Now if only you could do a video on how to get a good digital artist to do a bunch of work for free.

[@FBI_Master]

C++ makes my head hurt why can we just use C# and get along or hell C is a better language from a not losing my mind perspective

[@Stowy]

Well C# is JIT compiled and has a garbage collector, so it's too slow haha, and some features of c++ are really usefull for game programming

[@sleyeborgrobot6843]

thank you jimmy falln

[@CreativeOven]

Is this code available to the public to take it into Javascript ... L :

[@Stowy]

Yes ! You can find it on my github ! (you can see the link in the first episode)

[@CreativeOven]

@@Stowy ok thanks 🙏👍😼

[@CreativeOven]

@@Stowy Any shortcut on how to run it I see a lot of cmake files and such no good feeling about that XD....

[@benhetland576]

@@CreativeOven I guess just "cmake" then "make" should do the trick on a decent system, otherwise either the CMakeFile or the system itself sucks :-)

[@CreativeOven]

@@benhetland576 Ok thanks I see where the compass is facing then thanks ! yeah I know where to go basically....

[@HalfStab]

Second

[@jimmychen4796]

who can beat me！

[@Jkauppa]

its the original hardcore brute force way to not use partition/acceleration grids

[@Jkauppa]

in first ray tracing and such, low number of elements, not production quality, just first trial fast non-thought-through implementation

[@Jkauppa]

if you do raster render by tringle lists, you are not using the space partition efficiency (boundary volume hierarchies)

[@Jkauppa]

you should do a high-level render pass with hierarchical geometries

[@Jkauppa]

dont limit anyone to any mold "scientist"

[@Jkauppa]

remove yourself if you put rules in place

[@anthonysteinerv]

When you doing a 3d/2d physics engine tutorial series?

[@jimmychen4796]

first！