[piefayth]

One of my grievances with most engines is a poor story around networked physics. It’s desirable to me to be able to leverage historical physics states in a performant way, sometimes querying or stepping many modified versions of those states at once.

Bevy’s data oriented design seems great for the kind of stateless physics required here, but I couldn’t find any physics OR networking features in a quick five minute browse. Is this something that is well supported by Bevy today, or will be in the future?

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We haven't (yet) prioritized an official physics plugin for Bevy, but the Rapier physics engine has their own official Bevy plugin, which is the de-facto standard at this point.

It supports opt-in determinism, which should be great for some networked physics scenarios.

https://rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/bevy_plugin/getting_start...

The story is similar for networking. Ultimately we will have a built in api, but we're focused on more fundamental things at the moment. There are _tons_ of community-developed networking plugins though: https://bevyengine.org/assets/#networking