Aurelien Ribon box2d editor - abandoned?

[Cervator]

It has come up a couple times that the 2D physics tool traditionally used with Destination Sol is getting a little dusty. When it works that's great, but it looks like it hasn't had any updates for three years and the blog has been quiet for nearly that long.

Tool: http://www.aurelienribon.com/blog/projects/physics-body-editor/
Code: https://code.google.com/p/box2d-editor/
Blog: http://www.aurelienribon.com/blog/

Some people can't get it to work (Mac issue? @Crimson seems to be affected by it) and it is still hosted on Google Code which is going read-only in a few weeks in advance for eventually going away (probably a year or more out?). I see 30-something auto-exports on GitHub but every last one is star and fork less. Not a lot of good hits on Google either. LibGDX forum seems aware but unsure there are any good replacements.

@SimonC4 you might have played with it the most, any opinion of its worth? Should we consider putting a bit of effort into salvaging it for GitHub or are we better off looking for a newer tool?

 

[PrivateAlpha]

We may as well look into maintaining it if we can, since there doesn't seem to be a replacement.

 

[Cervator]

Migrated / exported to https://github.com/MovingBlocks/box2d-editor for initial review. It badly needs some Gradle magic

If we can get it working well we could announce intent to try maintaining / improving it together with Destination Sol. But lets make sure we want to go there first, some 30+ other forks started too and got nowhere.

Let me know if anybody else wants write access, I've set up @PrivateAlpha and @SimonC4 with admin access

 

[SimonC4]

Nice work. I haven't actually used this editor. For the guide, I just took what others had done.

It'll be good to get this up and running.

 

[msteiger]

Maybe you guys want to leave him a note on GitHub? He might be interested ..
https://github.com/AurelienRibon

 

[Cervator]

It looked like he had more or less fallen off the internet, although I do see one whole commit in July there for the last year of GitHub, so hopefully he's still alive

Wanting to see if we can get it building and working, then shop it around a bit to anybody interested. Would be nice to get word back from him somehow.