patch from Alex Fraser (z0r)
eg.
- vec.xyz = vec.zyx
- vec.xy = vec.zw
- vec.xxy = vec.wzz
- vec.yzyz = vec.yxyx
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swizzling_(computer_graphics)
made some minor modifications to this patch.
tested access times and adding 336 attributes to vectors doesn't make a noticeable differences to speed of existing axis attributes (x,y,z,w) - thanks to python dict lookups.
- when the attribute check function failed it didnt set an error raising a SystemError instead
- Rasterizer.getMaterialMode would never return KX_BLENDER_MULTITEX_MATERIAL
- PropertySensor value attribute checking function was always returning a fail.
- Vertex Self Shadow python script didnt update for meshes with modifiers.
- Added support for any number of attributes, this means packages are supported automatically.
so as well as "myModule.myFunc" you can do "myPackage.myModule.myFunc", nested packages work too.
- pass the controller to the python function as an argument for functions that take 1 arg, this check is only done at startup so it wont slow things down.
added support for
- Vast performance increase when removing scene containing large number of
objects: the sensor/controller map was updated for each deleted object,
causing massive slow down when the number of objects was large (O(n^2)).
- Use reference when scanning the sensor map => avoid useless copy.
- Remove dynamically the object bounding box from the DBVT when the object
is invisible => faster culling.
This function sets the maximum number of logic frame executed per render frame.
Valid values: 1..5
This function is useful to control the amount of processing consumed by logic.
By default, up to 5 logic frames can be executed per render frame. This is fine
as long as the time spent on logic is negligible compared to the render time.
If it's not the case, the default value will drag the performance of the game
down by executing unnecessary logic frames that take up most of the CPU time.
You can avoid that by lowering the value with this function.
The drawback is less precision in the logic system to physics and I/O activity.
Note that it does not affect the physics system: physics will still run
at full frame rate (actually up to 5 times the ticrate).
You can further control the render frame rate with GameLogic.setLogicTicRate().
sys.path is the search path for python modules. This is useful so people making games can put all their scripts in a folder and be sure they will always load into the BGE.
for each blend file a scripts directory is added to the path
/home/me/foo.blend
will look for modules in...
/home/me/scripts/*.py
It could also default to look for modules in the same directory as the blend file but I think this is messy.
Added a note in the tooltip about //scripts so its not such a hidden feature.
This works by storing the original sys.path, then adding the paths for the blendfile and all its libs,
when a new blendfile is loaded, the original sys.path is restored before adding the blendfiles paths again so the sys.path wont get junk in it.
One problem with this - when using linked libs the module names must be unique else it will load the wrong module for one of the controllers.
also fixed 2 bugs
- sys.path in the blenderplayer was growing by 1 for every file load in blenderplayer
- the relative path (gp_GamePythonPath), wasnt being set when loading files in the blenderlayer (as I wrongly said in the last commit).
The solution is a hack. It's a workaround for another bug (#18655).
Now it's working in all modes: fullscreen, maximized screen and gameplayer.
* small change to always set the perspective mode as true during dome mode.
- the gp_GamePythonPath relative path variable wasnt updated when loading new files.
- missing NULL check for scene crashed blender when it failed to load a file.
Both problems dont affect blenderplayer
I added module clearing before there was checks for invalid python objects, so now its not needed for BGE Builtin types at least.
also made the builtin modules get re-used if they already exist and clear all user modules when the game engine finishes so with Module-Py-Controllers the referenced modules are at least up to date when pressing Pkey.
Option to run a function in a module rather then a script from a python controller, this has a number of advantages.
- No allocating and freeing the namespace dictionary for every time its triggered
(hard to measure the overhead here, but in a test with calling 42240 scripts a second each defining 200 vars, using modules was ~25% faster)
- Ability to use external python scripts for game logic.
- Convenient debug option that lets you edit scripts while the game engine runs.
- renamed generic attribute "isValid" to "invalid" since BL_Shader already uses isValid.
- Moved deprecation warnings from CValue
- removed unused KX_Scene::SetProjectionMatrix and KX_Scene::GetViewMatrix
- Added KX_Scene attributes "lights", "cameras", "objects_inactive", to allow access to objects in unseen layers (before the AddObject actuator adds them)
- KX_Camera deprecated cam.enableViewport(bool) for cam.isViewport which can be read as well.
Own bug, conversion function to get an orientation from python - PyOrientationTo() ignored user input completely :| (breaking the orientation attribute)
Also made KX_GameObject worldOrientation writable and minor doc fixes.
- print CListValue errors only once.
- bge_api_validate_py.txt now validates modules as well as types.
- added missing functions and consts for epydoc modules. some of these in GameLogic.py still need sorting.
