Support for Kinematics

Kinematics is physics that describes motion of objects without accounting for forces or masses.

Assume you want your game engine to support Kinematics.

1. What state needs to be kept? Where should it be kept?

2. How should the motion for one game object’s be updated? Write pseudo-code.

3. How should the motion for all game objects be updated? Write pseudo-code.

4. In Dragonfly, where should the code from #3 be?

5. When moving a game object, what else should be considered?

6. Beyond Kinematics, what other physics aspects might you want a game engine to support?

Hand-in

Each person in a group should submit their answers:

https://wpi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_enZ8sBGMsYt2EHI

Make sure to include the names of all group members.

Happy kinematics-ing!

– Mark