This mainly touches extern libraries and few debug-only places in intern.
Some summary:
- External libraries are not strict at all about missing declarations,
so we can rather safely remove such warning together with other strict
flags.
- Bullet has some static functions which are not used.
Those were commented out.
- Carve now has some unused debug-only functions commented out as well.
While we're on the way of getting rid of Carve, it makes sense to make
things a bit cleaner for the time being.
- In LZMA we have some parts disabled which gives some set but unused
variables which is rather correct.
- Elbeem had quite some variables set and never used because their usage
is inside of debug-only code which is commented out.
Note about patching upstream libraries: surely one might say that we
have to make local patchset against this, but own experience says it
only gives extra work trying to merge such tweaks to a new upstream
version and usually it's just faster to re-apply such fixes again after
bundling new upstream library.
I tried to carefully preserve all patches since the last upgrade.
Improves T47195, cloth collision detection bug.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1739
This assert happens all the time for character physics in debug mode.
In release mode, the assert is skipped but the code is still incorrect
although it does not cause any crash strangely.
Noticed this while looking into something else.
The change is trivial, but gives a rather nice preformance improvement,
so why not.
Theres's actually a lot one can do to improve collision performance if
one wanted to, the triangle-triangle check alone has a lot of room for
improvement.
This was caused by static variables used in plNearestPoints().
For now solved by making the solvers allocated in the stack,
seems no noticeable affect on the simulation speed so far.
Apply patches in patches directory, remove patches that were applied
upstream.
If you made changes without adding a patch, please check.
Fixes [#32233] exporting bullet format results in corrupt files.
* Add access to the original indices for vertices
* Add a very simple C API for convex hull
* Add this patch to the patches folder and update readme.txt
Remove Jamfiles and other unused files that stuck around during previous updates.
Add patches for local changes to the patches directory.
Update readme.txt, it had outdated infromation.
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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.
add PhysicsConstraints.exportBulletFile(char* fileName) python command
I'll be checking the bf-committers mailing list, in case this commit broke stuff
scons needs to be updated, I'll do that in a second.
The cause of this is in the bullet library, seems like some kind
of poor handling of many repeated allocations by Mac OS X, but the
allocation is unnecessary, so removed it.
Patch submitted to bullet:
http://code.google.com/p/bullet/issues/detail?id=303
+ fixed Python method, PyArg_ParseTuple already checks for errors, no returning of NULL, thanks Campbell too)
+ added linear/angular spring for each of the 6DOFs of a generic 6dof constraint. This makes the generic 6dof constraint very versatile.
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.
Should make generic 6DOF constraint more useable, and rigid body stacking more stable (warmstarting was accidently switched off)
If time allows, a few more minor last-minute 2.49 fixes might follow.
Check out http://bulletphysics.com/constraintsTutorial.blend
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.
In particular, the Bullet vehicle seems broken, and some soft-body demos don't work.
No new features or benefits are added yet, but a few improvements are planned before Blender 2.49 release.
Please update the build systems, and add those 3 files:
extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/CollisionDispatch/btActivatingCollisionAlgorithm.cpp
extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/CollisionDispatch/btGhostObject.cpp
extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/CollisionShapes/btConvexPointCloudShape.cpp
I'll watch the Blender mailing list, in case this commit causes some issues.
Bullet logic bug in (de)activation/island management: deactivated 'fantom' objects do merge islands, in particular when connected by constraints. (fantom = object with collision detection but no collision response).
In case someone reads those SVN logs: you can enable some extra broadphase SSE optimizations by replacing WIN32_AVOID_SSE_WHEN_EMBEDDED_INSIDE_BLENDER by WIN32 in extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/BroadphaseCollision/btDbvt.h
Thanks to Benoit Bolsee for the upstream patch/contribution.
Removed some obsolete files, they were just intended for comparison/testing.
HELP BUILD SYSTEM MAINTAINERS: Please help with updating all build systems: the newly added files need to be added. Note that the src/SoftBody has been added for future extension of real-time soft bodies.
