* This includes if you want to mesh sculpties and the Level of detail on the sculptie meshing for non physical and a separate LOD on physical sculpties.
* The options range from gravity.. to avatar movement speed, to friction management.. to object density.. to update throttling.
* The main purpose of this is to provide configuration options for ODE and other physics plug-ins that are advanced enough to be able to be configured.
* Currently if you apply that to only one or two axis you get unpredictable and sometimes explosive results.
* Three axis works well enough to play with it anyway. More work is needed here.
* Fixed an incorrectly named method in ODE.NET
* It doesn't generate at_target events, because they don't exist yet in the script engine.
* The Tau is different, however, compatible with scripts I tested.
* Not perfect... but pretty good.
* Added osSetPrimFloatOnWater(BOOL) to make Physical prim float at the water level.
* osSetPrimFloatOnWater(TRUE); or osSetPrimFloatOnWater(FALSE);
* By default, prim do not float at the water level.
* More work is needed on the floating, but it's a start.
* To play with this you must link your prim before setting it physical, otherwise they won't link in the physics engine properly. This will also be fixed.
* Currently the linked prim are extremely unstable because I have yet to implement combining of forces with the same normal. This will also be fixed. In fact, the whole PhysicsActor, ODEPrim relationship will be reworked to consider groups from the get-go.
* This implementation is better then it crashing your sim, so I'm commiting it for now.
* When you select a physical prim, it stops while you've got it selected.
* When you move or alter a prim in some manner, it doesn't become collidable until you de-select it
* When you select a prim, it doesn't become temporarily 'phantom' until you make some change to it while it's selected. (this prevents accidental selections in prim floor from causing it to go phantom on you(but don't move it or you'll fall))
* There's one major difference, and that's a physical object won't stop if you don't have permission to edit it. This prevents people who don't have edit permissions on a prim from stopping it while it's moving.
* Updated the ode.dll for windows with a more reasonable stack space reserve. Linux users will need to type ulimit -s 262144 before starting up OpenSimulator if using Physical Prim to protect against stack collisions. or run the included ./bin/opensim-ode.sh to start up OpenSimulator in ODE mode.
* Added internal collision score and am keeping track of 'high usage' prim.
* Tweaked collisions some more
* Tested up to 460 physical prim in extremely close quarters (which was previously impossible in OpenSim). After 460 in tight quarters, physics slows down enough to make it hard to do any moving, however.. non physics things still work, such as logging on to the simulator, etc.
** Sending the actual TimeDilation to the client now instead of the 62455 constant. The client is *supposed* to use that value to sync with the simulator. (actually sending ushort.maxvalue * TimeDilation)
** Disabling prim that inter-penetrate instead of just not attaching a joint
** Reduced prim spin a 'little' bit, but not *enough*
** Tweaked the TimeDilation algorithm to be closer to 1.0 by default and various changes to the sim stats reporter
** Created a .SetValues method to PhysicsVector so we can simply call the setvalues function instead of .x, .y, .z sets.
** Experimented with a .GetBytes Method on PhysicsActor to be able to use the LLVector3.FromBytes() method.
** Upped the Inter-penetration depth to 0.25 instead of .08.
* Exposed the mass as a PhysicsActor read only property (so scripts can get at it - hint hint -)
* Hollow and Path Cuts affect the prim mass (all Hollow Types are supported in this calculation (sphere,square,triangle))
* Prim no longer sink into the ground.
* ODE - Fixed the iscolliding property to report a static true when colliding.
* Added reporting of collisions to call UpdateMovementAnimations
* Added Jump - air animation (with arms outstretched).
* Added Fall Animations
* ODE - Added a small amount of X, Y motion control while jumping or Falling
* ODE - Avatar movement animations are still a bit odd sometimes, and had to get this up there.
* Addition of Gerhard's ZeroMesher.
* Addition of meshing OpenSim.ini parameter
* Some modifications to the Meshmerizer
* Meshmerizer set to default meshing plugin because ZeroMesher needs a memory locking fix. We'll switch it back after the memory locking issue is resolved.
* Added a ThrottleUpdates member to PhysicsActor to expose 'throttle' ability to the Scene.
* Updated the ode.dll file with a fix to invalid data passed to ODE's heightfield collision calculator.
Note this has lead to a big flat project, but I think a lot of the files we most likely don't even use any longer. And others belong in other projects/namespaces anyway.
* Sqlite Storage Engine now supports terrain -- however be aware that every terrain revision stored will at 512KB to your database file. At the moment it is storing every revision from the first.
* Fixed an issue where by noverbose mode would display lots of useless junk. Noverbose mode is now quite usable.
* Fixed a whole bunch of console message issues such as naming and categorisation
Implemented that method in ODE plugin.
Hooked it up so when deleting/taking prims into your inventory they will be removed from physics engine.
Enabled the other physics hook ups in Scene.cs (and also added registering prims with physics plugin when they are rezzed from Inventory.)
So now to get the avatar to prim collision testing working, just change to use the ODE plugin (in the OpenSim.ini file, physics = OpenDynamicsEngine). Remember though ODE only really works (without problems) when running with a single region.
Jeff Ames