This is a squashed commit of the following:
BGE Physics Cleanup: Fix crashes with LibLoading and replication. Also fixing some memory leaks.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing KX_IPhysicsController and KX_BulletPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Moving the replication code outside of KX_BlenderBulletController and switching KX_ConvertPhysicsObjects to create a CcdPhysicsController instead of a KX_BlenderBulletController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Getting rid of an unsued KX_BulletPhysicsController.h include in KX_Scene.cpp.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing unused KX_IPhysicsController and KX_BulletPhysicsController includes.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing m_pPhysicsController1 and GetPhysicsController1() from KX_GameObject.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Remove SetRigidBody() from KX_IPhysicsController and remove GetName() from CcdPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Moving Add/RemoveCompoundChild() from KX_IPhysicsController to PHY_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing GetLocalInertia() from KX_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Making BlenderBulletCharacterController derive from PHY_ICharacter and removing CharacterWrapper from CcdPhysicsEnvironment.cpp. Also removing the character functions from KX_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing GetOrientation(), SetOrientation(), SetPosition(), SetScaling(), and GetRadius() from KX_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing GetReactionForce() since all implementations returned (0, 0, 0). The Python interface for KX_GameObject still has reaction force code, but it still also returns (0, 0, 0). This can probably be removed as well, but removing it can break scripts, so I'll leave it for now.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing Get/SetLinVelocityMin() and Get/SetLinVelocityMax() from KX_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing SetMargin(), RelativeTranslate(), and RelativeRotate() from KX_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Using constant references for function arguments in PHY_IPhysicsController where appropriate.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing ApplyImpulse() from KX_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Removing ResolveCombinedVelocities() from KX_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Accidently removed a return when cleaning up KX_GameObject::PyGetVelocity().
BGE Physics Cleanup: Remove GetLinearVelocity(), GetAngularVelocity() and GetVelocity() from KX_IPhysicsController. The corresponding PHY_IPhysicsController functions now also take Moto types instead of scalars to match the KX_IPhysicsController interface.
BGE Physics Cleanup: Moving SuspendDynamics, RestoreDynamics, SetMass, GetMass, and SetTransform from KX_IPhysicsController to PHY_IPhysicsController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: PHY_IPhysicsEnvironment and derived classes now use the same naming scheme as PHY_IController.
BGE Physics Cleanup: PHY_IMotionState and derived classes now use the same naming convention as PHY_IController.
BGE Phsyics Cleanup: Making PHY_IController and its derived classes follow a consistent naming scheme for member functions. They now all start with capital letters (e.g., setWorldOrientation becomes SetWorldOrientation).
BGE Physics Cleanup: Getting rid of KX_GameObject::SuspendDynamics() and KX_GameObject::RestoreDynamics(). Instead, use the functions from the physics controller.
BGE: Some first steps in trying to cleanup the KX_IPhysicsController mess. KX_GameObject now has a GetPhysicsController() and a GetPhysicsController1(). The former returns a PHY_IPhysicsController* while the latter returns a KX_IPhysicsController. The goal is to get everything using GetPhysicsController() instead of GetPhysicsController1().
* Undoing the previous applyMovement() changes for characters. This was causing bugs for the Motion Actuator.
* Creating a Character Motion type for the Motion Actuator with specific controls for characters. This includes moving, rotating and jumping.
* Adding a KX_CharacterWrapper.walkDirection to set the character's direction and speed.
Note, this also resolves the following bugs:
[#33585] "Setting dLoc of motion actuator [0,0,0] via python won't stop object" reported by Manuel Bellersen (urfoex)
[#33503] "Character physics type won´t accept more than one motion anymore" reported by Mr Larodos
The problem was that the physics shapes for the near and radar sensor were getting turned into characters because CcdConstructionInfo::m_bCharacter was defaulting to true. Now it defaults to false and is explicitly set to true for only Character physics types.
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This patch adds a new "Character" BGE physics type which uses Bullet's btKinematicCharacter for simulation instead of full-blown dynamics. It is appropiate for (player-controlled) characters, for which the other physics types often result unexpected results (bouncing off walls, sliding etc.) and for which simple kinematics offers much more precision.
"Character" can be chosen like any other physics type in the "Physics" section of the properties window. Current settings for tweaking are "Step Height" (to make the object automatically climb small steps if it collides with them), "Fall Speed" (the maximum speed that the object can have when falling) and "Jump Speed", which is currently not used.
See http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=28476&group_id=9
for sample blends and a discussion on the patch: how to use it and what influences the behavior of the character object.
Known problem: there is a crash if the "compound" option is set in the physics panel of the Character object.
Never memset(&ob, 0,sizeof(class)) when there is a constructor, it overrides all memory.
The problem was that the memset(0) was setting the scaling to (0,0,0), the height of the cone became 'infinity'
so GJK would iterate 'MAX_ITER' without converging due to this #NAN value
A btBvhTriangleMeshShape object is created when converting
a mesh to physics, also in case of Soft body although the
soft body will not use it (it only uses the mesh interface).
This patch keeps this system for compatibility with the
KX converter but avoids the creation of the BVH structure,
which consumes a lots of CPU. This should speed up
significantly the conversion of large mesh to softbody.
A secondary optimization is that the sharing of shapeInfo
is extended to rigid body using gImpact. Before it was
only active between static body and soft body.
Even a static mesh can be used as replacement: the mesh
will be instantiated with the soft body settings of the
object. The position and orientation of the soft body
is preserved after the replacement.
Known limitation: the velocity of the soft body is reset
aftet the replacement. This is because soft body don't
have a well defined velocity.
Add support back for reinstancePhysics mesh, a frequently requested feature in the BGE forums.
from what I can tell Sumo supported this but bullet never did.
Currently only accessible via python at the moment.
- rigid body, dynamic, static types work.
- instanced physics meshes are modified too.
- compound shapes are not supported.
Physics mesh can be re-instanced from...
* shape keys & armature deformations
* subsurf (any other modifiers too)
* RAS_TexVert's (can be modified from python)
Moved the reinstancePhysicsMesh functions from RAS_MeshObject into KX_GameObject since the physics data is stored here.
video and blend file demo.
http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/reinstance.ogvhttp://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/reinstance_demo.blend
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1382653&postcount=102
(todo: expose this setting in World setting GUI)
Expose contact processing threshold in Advanced GUI, next to rigid body margin, called CPT.
Default to 1, makes rigid body stacking a bit more stable, smaller values makes sliding easier (at the cost of easier jittering).
Disabled for 'dynamic' objects that don't rotate, because characters etc. always need smooth sliding.
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
This commit completes the support for modifiers in the BGE.
- The physic shape is generated according to the derived mesh.
This is true for all types of shapes and all types of
objects except soft body.
- Optimization for static derived mesh (mesh with modifiers
but no armature and no shape keys). Replicas will share
the derived mesh and the display list: less memory and
faster rendering. With this optimization, the static
derived mesh will render as fast as if the modifiers were
applied.
Known Limits:
- Sharing of mesh and display list is only possible between
in-game replicas or dupligroup. If you want to instantiate
multiple objects with modifiers, use dupligroup to ensure
best memory and GPU utilization.
- rayCast() will interact with the derived mesh as follow:
Hit position and hit normal are the real values according
to the derived mesh but the KX_PolyProxy object refers to
the original mesh. You should use it only to retrieve the
material.
- Dynamic derived mesh have very poor performance:
They use direct openGL calls for rendering (no support
for display list and vertex array) and they dont't share
the derived mesh memory. Always apply modifiers on dynamic
mesh for best performance.
- Time dependent modifiers are not supported.
- Modifiers are not supported for Bullet soft body.
Clamp objects min/max velocity.
Accessed with bullet physics from the advanced button with dynamic and rigid body objects.
- useful for preventing unstable physics in cases where objects move too fast.
- can add linear velocity with the motion actuator to give smooth motion transitions, without moving too fast.
- minimum velocity means objects don't stop moving.
- python scripts can adjust these values speedup or throttle velocity in the existing direction.
Also made copy properties from an object with no properties work (in case you want to clear all props)
This commit contains a number of performance improvements for the
BGE in the Scenegraph (parent relation between objects in the
scene) and view frustrum culling.
The scenegraph improvement consists in avoiding position update
if the object has not moved since last update and the removal
of redundant updates and synchronization with the physics engine.
The view frustrum culling improvement consists in using the DBVT
broadphase facility of Bullet to build a tree of graphical objects
in the scene. The elements of the tree are Aabb boxes (Aligned
Axis Bounding Boxes) enclosing the objects. This provides good
precision in closed and opened scenes. This new culling system
is enabled by default but just in case, it can be disabled with
a button in the World settings. There is no do_version in this
commit but it will be added before the 2.49 release. For now you
must manually enable the DBVT culling option in World settings
when you open an old file.
The above improvements speed up scenegraph and culling up to 5x.
However, this performance improvement is only visible when
you have hundreds or thousands of objects.
The main interest of the DBVT tree is to allow easy occlusion
culling and automatic LOD system. This will be the object of further
improvements.
Was adding each face with a remove doubles option that made conversion increasingly slower for larger meshes, this would often hang blender when starting with the BGE with larger meshes.
Replace btTriangleMesh()->addTriangle() with btTriangleIndexVertexArray()
YoFrankie level_1_home.blend starts a third faster, level_nut about twice as fast.
- previous commit was also incorrect using the original meshes vert locations rather then the vert locations that came from the derived mesh.
- Softbody is relying on removing doubles at 0.01 to give stable results, this no longer works but seems a bit dodgy anyway. Maybe some post-processing filter could fix up a mesh for bullet softbody.
btPoint3 has been deprecated, it was already a typedef to btVector3
replace std::vector by btAlignedObjectArray when storing Bullet objects, because MSVC STL implementation has some bugs, preventing to contain aligned objects
(btVector3 is 16-byte aligned, to allow SIMD)
This patch modifies the way the setParent actuator and KX_GameObject::setParent() function
works when parenting to a compound object: the collision shape of the object being parented
is dynamically added to the coumpound shape.
Similarly, unparenting an object from a compound object will cause the child collision shape
to be dynamically removed from the parent shape provided that is was previously added with
setParent.
Note: * This also works if the object is parented to a child of a compound object: the
collision shape is added to the compound shape of the top parent.
* The collision shape is added with the transformation (position, scale and orientation)
it had at the time of the parenting.
* The child shape is rigidly attached to the compound shape, the transformation is not
affected by any further change in position/scale/orientation of the child object.
* While the child shape is added to the compound shape, the child object is removed from
the dynamic world to avoid superposition of shapes (one for the object itself and
one for the compound child shape). This means that collision sensors on the child
object are disabled while the child object is parent to a compound object.
* There is no difference when setParent is used on a non-compound object: the child
object is automatically changed to a static ghost object to avoid bad interaction
with the parent shape; collision sensors on the child object continue to be active
while the object is parented.
* The child shape dynamically added to a compound shape modifies the inertia of the
compound object but not the mass. It participates to collision detection as any other
"static" child shape.
Implementation of the PHY_IPhysicsController::SetMargin(),
GetMargin(), SetRadius() and GetRadius() for Bullet and Sumo
to allow resetting the Near sensor radius. For bullet use
the new setUnscaledRadius() function to change sphere radius.
In pPreparation of a Fh constraint actuator:
- Add KX_IPhysicsController::GetRadius()
- Fix implementation of KX_BulletPhysicsController::GetVelocity()
(velocity at a point in geometric coordinate)
- Don't try to set velocity on static object (Bullet will assert)
- Add KX_GameObject::GetVelocity() for C access to local velocity
add -nojoystick commandline option: it takes 5 seconds everytime to start the game engine, while there IS no joystick.
In other words: blender -noaudio -nojoystick improves workflow turnaround times for P - ESC from 7 seconds to 1 second!
Improved Bullet soft body advanced options, still work-in-progress. Make sure to create game Bullet soft bodies from scratch, it is not compatible with last weeks builds.
Added Bullet/Gimpact concave collision detection to Blender. If your build system isn't updated yet, please add extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/Gimpact/*
This allows moving/dynamic concave triangle meshes (decomposing meshes into compound convex shapes, and using 'compound' shapes is still preferred)
