A new type of "Sensor" physics object is available in the GE for advanced
collision management. It's called Sensor for its similarities with the
physics objects that underlie the Near and Radar sensors.
Like the Near and Radar object it is:
- static and ghost
- invisible by default
- always active to ensure correct collision detection
- capable of detecting both static and dynamic objects
- ignoring collision with their parent
- capable of broadphase filtering based on:
* Actor option: the collisioning object must have the Actor flag set to be detected
* property/material: as specified in the collision sensors attached to it
Broadphase filtering is important for performance reason: the collision points
will be computed only for the objects that pass the broahphase filter.
- automatically removed from the simulation when no collision sensor is active on it
Unlike the Near and Radar object it can:
- take any shape, including triangle mesh
- be made visible for debugging (just use the Visible actuator)
- have multiple collision sensors using it
Other than that, the sensor objects are ordinary objects. You can move them
freely or parent them. When parented to a dynamic object, they can provide
advanced collision control to this object.
The type of collision capability depends on the shape:
- box, sphere, cylinder, cone, convex hull provide volume detection.
- triangle mesh provides surface detection but you can give some volume
to the suface by increasing the margin in the Advanced Settings panel.
The margin applies on both sides of the surface.
Performance tip:
- Sensor objects perform better than Near and Radar: they do less synchronizations
because of the Scenegraph optimizations and they can have multiple collision sensors
on them (with different property filtering for example).
- Always prefer simple shape (box, sphere) to complex shape whenever possible.
- Always use broadphase filtering (avoid collision sensor with empty propery/material)
- Use collision sensor only when you need them. When no collision sensor is active
on the sensor object, it is removed from the simulation and consume no CPU.
Known limitations:
- When running Blender in debug mode, you will see one warning line of the console:
"warning btCollisionDispatcher::needsCollision: static-static collision!"
In release mode this message is not printed.
- Collision margin has no effect on sphere, cone and cylinder shape.
Other performance improvements:
- Remove unnecessary interpolation for Near and Radar objects and by extension
sensor objects.
- Use direct matrix copy instead of quaternion to synchronize orientation.
Other bug fix:
- Fix Near/Radar position error on newly activated objects. This was causing
several detection problems in YoFrankie
- Fix margin not passed correctly to gImpact shape.
- Disable force/velocity actions on static objects
Added occlusion culling capability in the BGE.
More info: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.49/Game_Engine#BGE_Scenegraph_improvement
MSVC, scons, cmake, Makefile updated.
Other minor performance improvements:
- The rasterizer was computing the openGL model matrix of the objects too many times
- DBVT view frustrum culling was not properly culling behind the near plane:
Large objects behind the camera were sent to the GPU
- Remove all references to mesh split/join feature as it is not yet functional
After some discussion with Campbell, changed the way cstruct sizeof is fetched.
Moved DataSize() to Blender.Types.CSizeof(Blendertype). Supported types return sizeof(data struct), otherwise -1.
To quickly check what types are supported:
import Blender.Types as bt
x = dir(bt)
for t in x:
if t[0] != '_':
s = 'bt.CSizeof(bt.' + t + ')'
print t,"=", eval(s)
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Add optional string argument to Object.newParticleSystem() method, so that
objects can link to existing particle systems (if the name of the particle
system is known). Also cleans up some code in Object.c which accesses the
particle sys listbase.
* subsurf code had a lot of unused variables, removed these where they are obviously not needed. commented if they could be useful later.
* some variables declorations hide existing variables (many of these left), but fixed some that could cause confusion.
* removed unused vars
* obscure python memory leak with colorband.
* make_sample_tables had a loop running wasnt used.
* if 0'd functions in arithb.c that are not used yet.
* made many functions static
(updated select group toolbox and header menu)
Added 2 copy property options - Replace All and Merge All, since there was no way to remove all properties, or set all objects game properties to be the same as the active objects.
Added set_ob_property(ob, prop) to property api.
bugfix in python api, copyAllPropertiesTo, it didnt check for duplicates or that it wasnt copying from/to the same object.
The 'opposite' of the "Insert Key" tool.
- Use the hotkey Ctrl-Alt-IKEY to activate.
- Only available in 3d-view and buttons window
I've added an extra var to verify_ipo and verify_ipocurve to save having to make another duplicate of that code. Hopefully the gameengine compiles ok with this.
* Moved all keyframing functions to their own file (keyframing.c)
* Merged all the different keyframing options (needed, visual, fast) into a single API call. The direct benefit of this is that it allows them to be used in conjunction with each other. Also, this means that when using the IKEY, autokeying settings for these are respected too.
* Implemented 'keyingsets' system (instead of directly calling insertkey on relevant channels), which is easier to maintain and cleaner. A keyingset basically defines all the channels that can be keyframed together. This paves the way for custom keyingsets sometime down the track (and also for quick-insert keyframes for previously used keyingset).
Menus for choosing the keying set to use are generated automatically from the definitions.
Patch from Jean-Michel Soler (with slight modifs)
Small BPy feature to help script writers deal with armatures and vertex groups (calls the bone heat method to create and assign groups)
I was careful in selectively rolling back revisions, but if you've committed changes unrelated to BPY mixed with BPY changes, I might have reverted those too, so please double check.
used for clipping were being stored in the mesh, but modifiers
can result in two objects with the same mesh having a different
bounding box. Solution is to store bounding box in the object.
this is mainly because adding pose keyframes recalculates every handle so importing became increasingly slow.
added a 'fast' argument to insertkey that python api's insertPoseKey can make use of since it alredy accepts a 'fast' option.
The ~4450 frame, 31 bone BVH imports in ~108sec now
Seperated editmode switch statement in space.c's event handling,
if editmode is disabled, or the images is a render or composite, UV editing operations are ignored.
In previous releases it has given an annoying warning if selecting or scaling is attempted when out of UV/Face mode.
Now it is possible to do Copy+Paste in the Action Editor, like in the IPO Editor. There are two new buttons in the Action Editor header for this, using the familiar icons.
* To copy...
Select the keyframes you wish to copy, and the channels that they occur in (except for ShapeKey mode, where it is not possible to select channels). Click copy button.
* To paste...
Place the current frame where you want the first of the keyframes from the buffer is to be pasted. Select all channels you wish the keyframes to be pasted into. Click paste button.
Currently, keyframes are only pasted into 'compatible' curves (i.e. LocX keyframes can only go to LocX, and so on). This may change after user feedback, if this is found to be too restrictive.
== Code Changes ==
I've made a few changes which allow this code to be nicer.
* renamed insert_vert_ipo to insert_vert_icu, as that represents its actual purpose better (and changed all occurrences I could find)
* created a new function, insert_bezt_icu, which does the actual inserting of provided BezTriple data to a given IpoCurve
* recoded insert_vert_icu to use this new function, and also the IPO-Editor keyframe pasting (i.e. pasting in Editmode)
This fixes a bug reported in IRC. getParentBoneName() was returning a string (most likely from an old bone-parent that got removed), even when the parent wasn't an Armature.
Data from Armature.c and logic.c still leaks.
Mostly todo with PyList_Append adding a refcount and the bpython api not decrefing.
Also added some features needed to fix a bug in mesh_clean.py (ob.pinShape and ob.activeShape)
ob1.shareFrom(ob2) - didnt work with the new type/realtype method of making sure all new objects were emptys until they were linked to data and the realtype is used.
added a constant dict "Blender.Object.IpoKeyTypes" to pass to ob.insertIpoKey(keytype), previously these constants were not documented well and added to Blender.Object directly
