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<h2 id="supported-engines">Supported engines</h2> <p>PAL supports multiple <a href="/facts/Physics_engine/lAsEdSA4">physics engines</a>, including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Box2D/PhM657oy">Box2D</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Bullet_(software)/jPb2WxWy">Bullet</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Newton_Game_Dynamics/muC0obos">Newton Game Dynamics</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Open_Dynamics_Engine/8739e20p">Open Dynamics Engine</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/PhysX/FabGhdvx">PhysX</a> (formerly NovodeX and incorporating Meqon)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Tokamak_physics_engine/H8crhuYl">Tokamak physics engine</a></li></ul> <h2 id="supported-file-formats">Supported file formats</h2> <p>PAL supports multiple file formats, including: <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/COLLADA/SEslfjPj">COLLADA</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Scythe_Physics_Editor/QlC7VoRF">Scythe Physics Editor</a> file format</li> <li><a href="/facts/Extensible_Markup_Language/clNgUfWk">XML</a></li></ul> <h2 id="benchmark">Benchmark</h2> <p>The PAL project provides a set of standard benchmarks allowing developers to directly compare the physics engines and select the engine that provides the best solution in terms of computational efficiency and physical accuracy. Care should be taken when deciding on which engine to actually use though, since engines may be tweaked in ways which PAL doesn't support. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.adrianboeing.com/pal/index.html">The official PAL site</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.adrianboeing.com/pal/pal_bench_graph.html">Interactive PAL benchmark</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"PAL : Physics Abstraction Layer : Home". www.adrianboeing.com. Retrieved 2024-11-03. <a href="http://www.adrianboeing.com/pal/" target="_blank">http://www.adrianboeing.com/pal/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"OPAL: Open Physics Abstraction Layer". tyl.st. Retrieved 2024-11-03. <a href="https://tyl.st/projects/opal/old/" target="_blank">https://tyl.st/projects/opal/old/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>