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?
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.
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
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?