[][Rapier]

[Rapier] is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines for games, animation and

robotics written in Rust.

[This month][rapier-october] the version 0.3.0 has been released with exciting

new features:

- cylinders and cones as collider shapes;

- collision groups (with bit masks) and collision filters (with callbacks)

for deciding what pairs of colliders can touch;

- the ability to set the mass of rigid-bodies explicitly;

- linear and angular damping, to progressively slow down rigid-bodies;

- the ability so attach some user-defined data (of type `u128`) to any

collider or rigid-body.

[][rapier-demo]

The [bevy_rapier] plugin for the Bevy game engine has been updated to support

all the aforementioned features.

Finally, a [continuous benchmarking][cont-bench] infrastructure has been set

up to make sure performances regressions can be detected early.

[Rapier]: https://rapier.rs

[rapier-october]: https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/11/01/this-month-in-dimforge/

[rapier-demo]: https://twitter.com/dimforge/status/1321138642778206211

[bevy_rapier]: https://www.rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/rust_bevy_plugin/getting_started

[cont-bench]: https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/10/01/this-month-in-dimforge#rapier-continuous-benchmarking