Chipmunk Physics

You use the data member of shapes and bodies to store a pointer to refer back to your own objects. In your own object store pointer(s) to all it's bodies and shapes. Make sense?

I'm not sure I've completely wrapped my head around it. I'll give it a try and report back.


Thanks for the help!

Ok, in principle I understand what you're saying, but in practice I can't figure out how to get it to work. In the code example above I've already lost track of one of my shapes by only returning the second shape (I realized that after I'd already posted it). So I'd need to store each shape in an array of pointers to shapes in my body's data member (and not return anything). But when I tried that I had all sorts of problems trying to use that array later because it's of type (void*).

The easiest way to do it is to have your own classs (say MyObject) which represents items in your world. That class will have a pointer to the cpBody for the object (or pointers if you can have multiple bodies for a single game object) and pointers to the cpShapes for that body (or bodies). The data members of the cpBody and cpShapes will have the MyObject* that they belong to so that you have a two way connection.

You must surely have something like MyObject already so it should be a minor change. Hopefully that's more clear.