I have been tinkering around with stuff for my game engine and I am currently working on a small test project with a ball that has various physics aspects applied to it, such as rolling/bouncing/collision/gravity/etc...
Using the best google-foo I could master I set out searching for everything related to making this stuff happen. Collision with the walls are working, and I can get it to bounce, and roll with rotating the ball shape. Gravity, not so much. I wanted to have a jump effect, which kinda works, but it only works on the bottom of the screen. If I made platforms to jump to it is not going to work. It seems there is a lot more to a few simple lines of code to make simple things happen.
So I came across the idea of using an existing physics engine...but it also seems I will have to recreate this wheel as well, because there is virtually nothing for vb.net, and everything I could find for C# uses XNA or Mono. Because I am already comfortable working with SFML I really don't want to switch to anything else. However, before I even set out on this journey I have to find out if anyone here who uses C# (because I am probably the only one using VB.NET) has a compatible engine they use with SFML?
I came across Box2d already, but the C# port of it was from 2008, and the examples I could never get to even work. That project is now dead. The good news is the devs moved on to making Farseer...unfortunately the examples are for XNA and Mono -_-
So I am reaching out to get some ideas. I don't want to make one from scratch, the maths are just to difficult for me to understand. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
