Pathfinding and Steering

[assofohdz]

Hi

I was wondering if there's any plans to incorporate pathfinding and steering into Dyn4j? I know that lib-gdx has the gdx-ai lib - and was wondering if it's conscious decision to keep it out

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It seems better to keep the physics separate from other concerns and not bolt everything into the dyn4j-jar.

On the other hand it would be great if all the java libraries could converge on the same set of 2D/3D-primitives. It gets pretty tiresome to convert one vector2d to another librarys vector2d. To bad vecmath never got traction but maybe JOML is an alternative. https://github.com/JOML-CI/JOML

[assofohdz]

I agree on keeping it seperate. I just wondered since all the shapes are already there, maintaining a navmesh wouldn't be too hard. I know it's not by any means easy.

[assofohdz]

I tried having the Body class implement the Steerable interface (from gdx-ai), but since the Vector2 classes are different (between gdx-ai and Dyn4j), the interface overrides clashes because of return types and method names. So I basically have to create a seperate class to bind the Steerable to the Body. Relates to what you said about primitives... Would be easy to implement the interface if the primitives were the same