A Blag About Graphics and Programming

I'm slowly moving all of my coding needs to C#, so I needed a PhysX .NET wrapper. You can find a list in this gd.net forum post. Most of them seem kind of dead, the only one that shows some activity is PhysX.Net, so it's either the best maintained or the buggiest

The binaries are a bit old and use PhysX 2.8.1.4 SDK, while the latest version, I believe, is 2.8.1.15 .
So it's probably better to get it via SVN and compile it yourself. This proved to be a bit tricky:

1. Download PhysX SDK;
   
2. Download PhysX System Software;
   
3. Open PhysX.Net.sln. You'll probaly get some errors that it can't load the sample projects. That's because you need XNA Game Studio installed. So either install it or not, your choise.
   
4. Select which graphics library (XNA, SlimDX, MDX) you'll be using from the Solution Configuration dropdown list. For example, choosing SlimDX means that PhysX.Actor.GlobalPose will return a SlimDX.Matrix;
   
5. If you chose SlimDX, open stdafx.h, find the line

   #using <C:\Program Files\SlimDX (September 2008)\SlimDX.dll>
   

   and change it to something like

   #using <C:\Program Files\SlimDX SDK (November 2008)\Bin\x86\SlimDX.dll>
   

   
   
6. Try compiling it. If it works- great, but you might get an error about "afxres.h" not found. Open Resources.h and replace the line

   #include "afxres.h"
   

   with

   #include "windows.h"

   (more info)
   
7. Enjoy;
   

A bit off-topic. Apparently, a lot of random visitors come here after googling "SlimDX". I'm not sure what they're looking for, but allow me to say this: it is good. Use it! They already started wrapping D3D11!