asymmetrical avatar capsule work now that rotation is being passed
from the simulator. Turns out the Bullet capsule is just not very
functional: it doesn't scale properly, the implementation only half
does asymmetry and, in general, is hard to work with.
Avatar shape is about what it was before these changes.
Added initial data structures for avatar shape mesh.
Properly return root mass as mass of just the root prim rather
than the mass of the linkset. SOG has the logic to add the masses
together to get the linkset mass.
Update TODO list.
for the operation of BulletSim and those defintiions/structures defined
so they can be used in the unmanaged world.
Consolidate setting of collision flags so implementation is not scattered.
While fixing the above, add methods to physical body and shape pointer
wrapper so routines won't have to know that IntPtr.Zero means no
physical instance.
Fix problem with physical linksets failing after a few sits and
unsits by properly restoring child prom positions for compound
linksets after multiple selection and deselections.
static objects by more restrictive selection of objects that collide
with static objects.
Rename collision mask fuctions from 'filter' to 'group' so it is clear
what is being set.
Rename BulletSimAPI.SetCollisionFilterMask() to SetCollisionGroupMask to match above.
Restore passing of time step to linear and angular motion component routines.
Use buffering vehicle physical parameter get/set routines consistantly.
Make range enforcement clearer by using ClampInRange() function for parameter setting.
Remove commented out experimental vehicle calculations.
Simple attempt to make avatars better shaped.
Replace parameter 'avatarCapsuleRadius' with 'avatarCapsuleWidth'
and 'avatarCapsuleDepth'.
More tweeking to avatar height calculation. A little better but
short avatar's feet are above the terrain and tall avatar's feet
are a little below the ground.
Add compound shape creation and freeing in shape manager.
Add optional taint-time execution method and update code to use it.
Add API2 linkage for more compound shape methods (get num, get/remove by index, ...)
Modify perferred shape return so linkset children can have differet shapes than root.
Add Position and Orientation calls to linksets so children can be moved around by
the linkset by its own calculation. Allows for very general linkset implementations.
Various tweekings to avatar shape/mass/inertia/etc.
Remove change from avatar radius to diameter. But still the avatar sinks.
Collision_end now happens immediately rather than at the next subscription time.
Change character scaling to represent size of capsule (diameter rather than radius)
Modify create capsule call to pass radius and height.
Eliminate errors when calculating shape inertia (should have some type checking).
Add capsule shape to BSShapeCollection().
Remember last updated values so inter frame diffs can be computed.
Parameterize avatarStandingFriction and reduce to 10 from 999.
The latter high value made avatars very hard to push.
Set CCD parameters for prims and characters of specified.
Update BSDynamics to use same (don't want to delay updates til next taint-time.
Suppress queuing a taint update for position and orientation calls if value
does not change.
Move Bullet timing statistics call from C# back to C++ code.
Throttle taints per simulation step and add parameter to set.
By default, don't create hulls for physical objects. Add a
parameter to turn on and off.
Rearrangement and cleanup of shape collection code. Much more readable.
Enabling and use of collision filters and masks.
Addition of ID to body creation BulletSimAPI calls so always set in
shape for collision reporting.
Change default of ShouldSplitSimulationIslands and ShouldRandomizeSolverOrder
from 'false' to 'true'. When 'false', this suppresses NO_CONTACT_RESPONSE
which makes volume detect fail.
so the members case is consistant. Caused modifications everywhere.
New logic in BSShapeCollection to track use and sharing of shapes.
I just reslized, though, that shapes cannot be shared because the
shape's UserPointer is the localID of the prim and is required
for tracking collisions. More changes coming.
Added DuplicateCollisionShape2() to API and changed BuildNativeShape2
to take a ShapeData structure so don't have to pass so many parameters.
This matches the latest version of BulletSim.dll.
Additions and removal of DetailLog() statements for debugging.
Fix avatar height calculation to properly account for the capsule ends.
Rearrange some locking in TerrainManager to eliminate possible race conditions.
Move DetailLog() definition into common BSPhysObject class.
Some variable renaming to make usage clearer (refactor.rename makes this so easy).
and into the parent class BSPhysObject.
Rework collision logic to enable extra collision after done colliding.
Rename 'Scene' to 'PhysicsScene' to differentiate it from the simulator 'Scene'.
Fix collision code to properly sense mega-region children regions as terrain.
When setting an object physical, reset all the physical properties (friction, ...).
Many changes to BSDynamic for readability and commentary.
Linkset hacking for vehicles: don't over mass the root prim.
Add parameter for link constraint solver iterations.
Correct uses of timestep in timescale calculations for vehicles.
Reorganize code/logic for making objects static and dynamic for readability
and use of API2.
Changed most calls in BSPrim to use API2 calls (the new way).
Avatars do not generate default Bullet collision events but do call up
to the simulator for every avatar. Reduces overhead.
Objects added to collision list only if they are processing collisions.
Reduces overhead especially for large numbers of avatars.
Generalize call for water height to GetWaterHeightAtXYZ().
Catch and correct exception getting terrain height when out of bounds.
Correct race condition in Terrain Manager where creation wasn't at taint-time.
Add API calls for constructing compound shapes.
Move NeedsMeshing() logic into object class.
Reorganize logic for object meshing to reduce rebuilding of meshs/hulls.
'Body' to 'BSBody' for disambiguation when reading code.
Complete the API2 interface so nearly all methods on bullet
classes are available to the managed code. The efficient
single call simulation step is kept in place while all
other creation/destruction/parameterization can be done
in the managed code.
Major rework of terrain management which finally makes mega-regions work.
Update heightmap of terrain by rebuilding the terrain's body and shape.
There is a problem with just replacing the shape so this workaround
will do for the moment but it will need to be resolved for
mesh and hull switching.
Update DLL API for new terrain and shape/body pattern methods.
Terrain creation and modification uses new shape/body pattern.
Move debug logging callback set to initialization call so logging
is per physics engine.
Moved all terrain code out of BSScene and into new BSTerrainManager.
Added logic to manage multiple terrains for mega-regions.
Added new functions to BulletSimAPI to match the library.
Moved all of the terrain creation and setup logic from C++ code to C# code.
The unused code has not yet been removed from either place. Soon.
Moved checks for avatar above ground and in bounds into BSCharacter.
no effect on non-logging running.
Capture region name that is passed to the physics engine and use
it for detail logging file name prefix.
Fix problem with avatars dropping when flying across region boundries.
debugging.
Linkset bugs fixed where accounting of children would get lost.
Moved scene based vehicle tracking logic from prim to the scene.
Added GetCollisionFlags2 method to BulletSimAPI.
Updated DLLs and SOs.
This also fixes computation of avatar mass.
Added parameter MaxPersistantManifoldPoolSize.
Fixed a parameter setting bug which caused crashes of there were
more than 400 or so physical objects. I tested up to 5000.
Updated BulletSim DLLs and SOs.
It seems that ODE calls the avatar collision handling routine even
if there are no collisions. This causes the animation to be updated.
So, for instance, going from HOVER to FLY is caused by the physics engine
calling the collision routine each frame with 0 collisions.
Robert Adams