Another bug in the 'radius per vertex' feature in curves.
If you set front/back face off for curves, and make it bevel or give
depth, the curves should draw as tubes. This feature didn't work in 2.48
either...
Still unsure about this implementation, campbell can check!
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)
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
from Alberto Santos (dnakhain)
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This patch complete previous one that I submit with new variables relationated with Particle System children (With variables related to Rough, Kink and Branch).
- Most mesh particle effectors can now have their effection point taken per particle as the nearest point on the mesh surface.
- This is activated with the "surface" button in the effector field panel.
- Activating the option adds a "surface" entry to the modifier stack where the state of the mesh is read from.
For an example of usage see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XkO1EAmJks.
- multi-line strings for bitmap text
- keyboard sensor now logs return and pad enter as "\n"
BGE std::vector use in Value.cpp and RAS_MaterialBucket.cpp
The size of a new list is known before making them, reduce re-allocs, though probably not a noticeable speedup.
User guide:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/Fisheye_Dome_Camera
Fixed two bugs from original patch:
- deleting a text will clear the warp field from Game framing settings
- removed spurious black dots along the edge of the cube map in the gameplayer
Known limitation:
- resizing of the screen doesn't work in the gameplayer
Known bugs:
- Texture with reflexion are not rendered correctly
- Spurious problems with light
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.
Ideally there would be no limit but I dont think its worth the effort.
Also had a bug in last commit for the pytyhon api's "axisSingle" attribute, UI index starts at 1 not zero.
- Raised limit of 2 axis to 4 axis pairs (4==8 joysticks axis pairs)
- Added a new Joystick Sensor type "Single Axis", so you can detect horizontal or vertical movement, rather then just Up/Down/Left/Right
- added Python attribute "axisSingle" so you can get the value from the selected axis (rather then getting it out of the axis list)
- renamed Py attribute "axisPosition" to "axisValues" (was never in a release)
If we need to increase the axis limit again just change JOYAXIS_MAX and the button limits.
- Explode didn't use the dmcache index for getting the particles emitter position.
- One "tri or quad"-comparison tested the wrong index. Leading to one quad converting into a tri.
If the density texture was taken into account with hair parent particles there were cases when there weren't any parents left to interpolate children from. Now a density texture is only taken into account for hair child particles.
When using 'angle' display for camera, the 'lens' ipo didn't update this
button. Implementation still lacks a bit... having both variables in the
camera struct is asking for troubles. Put on the re-think list for 2.5!
Mipmap creation for render crashed, in this case:
- use Curves tool on an Image, which is UV mapped on object
- Save the image to disk, under new name
- Render (F12)
This fix is only for the crash, there's something not well coded
for Curves tool, how it manages float buffers. That's for 2.5.
-Virtual parents were not randomly selected due to optimization in child particle distribution code.
-Wave-kink had a wrong matrix multiplication.
-Amount of virtual parents wasn't scaled properly to the amount of children rendered.
-Calculating virtual parents is now thread safe.
Previously this only worked with the Blender API.
- bpy_internal_import small C file that Blender scripting and the game engine use.
- Tested with blender, blenderplayer, loading files
- Needed to use a hack to override the Main struct since the game engine doesn't set G.main
- when the sandbox is set, only internal scripts can be imported.
from Alberto Santos (dnakhain)
"This patch adds a few new variables relationated with Particle System children such as children amount, render amount,
child clumping..."
ffmpeg format switched from RGBA32 to BGR32, it's no longer needed to swap color planes.
NOTE: this commit also attempts to fix the big endian case, but since I don't have a machine to test it, I'd appreciate if someone else would.
Correct joint-guided roll to use the previous bone, not the following (that was silly). Also made first bone use view axis (since it has no previous), this is much nicer that using rotation correction only. Using the joint roll option makes it MUCH more orientation independant.
own fault, broke rev16702.
Curves created by fonts didnt have their radius set. Forgot do do this when making radius calculated with the curve (like tilt)
