Box2D Engine

Box2D is a free open source 2-dimensional physics simulator engine and it is written in C++ engine for simulating rigid bodies in 2D. Box2D is developed by Erin Catto and has the zlib license.

We can use this engine while developing 2D games. this is very good engine to do the 2d animation games which I came across.

Box2D features are as follows:

Collision

• Continuous collision detection
• Contact callbacks: begin, end, pre-solve, post-solve
• Convex polyons and circles.
• Multiple shapes per body
• One-shot contact manifolds
• Dynamic tree broadphase
• Efficient pair management
• Fast broadphase AABB queries
• Collision groups and categories

Physics

• Continuous physics with time of impact solver
• Persistent body-joint-contact graph
• Island solution and sleep management
• Contact, friction, and restitution
• Stable stacking with a linear-time solver
• Revolute, prismatic, distance, pulley, gear, mouse joint, and other joint types
• Joint limits, motors, and friction
• Momentum decoupled position correction
• Fairly accurate reaction forces/impulses

System

• Small block and stack allocators
• Centralized tuning parameters
• Highly portable C++ with no use of STL containers

Testbed

• OpenGL with Freeglut
• Graphical user interface with GLUI
• Easily switch between tests using GUI
• Test framework for easily adding new tests
• Mouse picking and the bomb!
• CMake build system files

 Well i have tried to mention the features of Box2d engine here.