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2D and 3D physics engines for the Rust programming language.


What is Rapier?

Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines for games, animation, and robotics. These crates are rapier2d, rapier3d, rapier2d-f64, and rapier3d-f64. They are written with the Rust programming language, by the Dimforge organization. It is forever free and open-source!

Getting started

The easiest way to get started with Rapier is to:

  1. Read the user-guides.
  2. Play with the examples: cargo run --release --bin all_examples2 and cargo run --release --bin all_examples3. Their source code are available on the examples2d/ and examples3d/ directory.
  3. Don't hesitate to ask for help on Discord, or by opening an issue on GitHub.

Resources and discussions

  • Dimforge: See all the open-source projects we are working on! Follow our announcements on our blog.
  • User guide: Learn to use Rapier in your project by reading the official User Guides.
  • Discord: Come chat with us, get help, suggest features, on Discord!
  • NPM packages: Check out our NPM packages for Rapier, if you need to use it with JavaScript/Typescript.

Please make sure to familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct and our Contribution Guidelines before contributing or participating in discussions with the community.

Dependencies

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