PAL

Product information
Name: PAL Purpose: Physics engine wrapper / abstraction Last updated: Oct 24, 2007 Current version: unknown Status: released OS: Win32, Linux and other platforms available. Maintainer: Adrian Boeing Contact for technical issues:
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Physics Abstraction Layer is a professional open source (BSD license, free for commercial use) abstraction system for dynamic simulation systems. It provides a uniform 'API' to a number of physics engines. PAL supports COLLADA physics.

Supported Physics Engines

• AGEIA physics - Ageia PhysX (a.k.a Novodex)
• Bullet physics - Bullet
• Dynamechs (depricated)
• JigLib
• Meqon (depricated)
• Newton Dynamics - Newton
• ODE
• OpenTissue
• Tokamak
• TrueAxis

PAL includes COLLADA Physics using DAE2XML

24-10-07 PAL COLLADA loader has been released. The COLLADA loader is based on code from John Ratcliff. Many thanks to John Ratcliff for making the code to his lightweight COLLADA physics loader publicly available.

External links

• PAL COLLADA sample
• PAL Interactive Benchmark for evaluating physics engine performance