The real nasty part was integrating physics into a real project for the first time. I used JigLibX at first but it had several problems. The most severe being a poor selection of constraints, no forcefield support built in, buggy/broken body de-activation and poor performance (especially on the X-Box). I ended up fixing the body de-activation by hacking in a simple iteration through all of the bodies in the system to do the deactivation. No, I'm not submitting this as a patch since it circumvents what should be a superior method... eventually. I doubt JigLibX is going to see much work however since I remember seeing a post from its author about the creation/release of a new .NET physics library.
Anyway, I ended up switching to BEPU physics instead. I very strongly reccommend this engine for both its performance, which was quite decent on PC in my project, and its ease of use. I found the integration of BEPU was very simple to carry out and that tasks such as creating composite bodies, constraints etc. was very simple. This is actually somewhat inspiring since I might be able to use this for a future project I've been meaining to do. Sadly, I still have performance issues on the X-Box 360 though the game is playable if I keep the number of objects low.
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