but don't have an action got the pose of already added armatures, even
though they're not related. This also fixes an issue where the armature
in Blender would end up in the pose from the game after ESC, removes
unneeded copies made during armature evaluation, and also solves the
constraint copying hack.
- The cause was indeed corrupted particle settings which should have caused a deletion of the whole particle system. However the particle modifier was still left and that led to the crash.
- A "fix" because there's really no way of knowing what caused the corruption of the particle settings. If anyone else gets this and can recreate I'd love to get a .blend. Now that there shouldn't be a crash anymore the symptom will be a missing particle system after file load in an object that had a particle system before.
The Physics button controls the creation of a physics representation
of the object when starting the game. If the button is not selected,
the object is a pure graphical object with no physics representation
and all the other physics buttons are hidden.
Selecting this button gives access to the usual physics buttons.
The physics button is enabled by default to match previous Blender
behavior.
The margin parameter allows to control the collision margin from
the UI. Previously, this parameter was only accessible through
Python. By default, the collision margin is set to 0.0 on static
objects and 0.06 on dynamic objects.
To maintain compatibility with older games, the collision margin
is set to 0.06 on all objects when loading older blend file.
Note about the collision algorithms in Bullet 2.71
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Bullet 2.71 handles the collision margin differently than Bullet 2.53
(the previous Bullet version in Blender). The collision margin is
now kept "inside" the object for box, sphere and cylinder bound
shapes. This means that two objects bound to any of these shape will
come in close contact when colliding.
The static mesh, convex hull and cone shapes still have their
collision margin "outside" the object, which leaves a space of 1
or 2 times the collision margin between objects.
The situation with Bullet 2.53 was more complicated, generally
leading to more space between objects, except for box-box collisions.
This means that running a old game under Bullet 2.71 may cause
visual problems, especially if the objects are small. You can fix
these problems by changing some visual aspect of the objects:
center, shape, size, position of children, etc.
- Particle now use the deflector objects collision modifier data to collide with deflectors and as a result can now use the velocity of the colliding object for more realistic collisions.
- Dynamic rotations are also quite a bit more realistic and are related to the friction setting of the deflector (to get any dynamic rotations there has to be some friction). This is largely due to the separate handling of rolling friction (approximated to be 1% of normal sliding friction).
- Collisions should be a bit faster on complex deflectors due to the tree structure used by the collision modifier.
- Collision should also generally be a bit more accurate.
To be noted: Only the average velocity of individual deflector faces is used, so collisions with rotating or deforming objects can't be handled accurately - this would require much more complex calculations. Subdividing the deflector object surface to smaller faces can help with this as the individual face velocities become more linear.
bug fix [17428]
/*backward compatibility note:
G.rt==16 still activates 'old' code
fixing bug [17428] which forces adaptive step size to tiny steps in some situations .. keeping G.rt==17 0x11 option for old files 'needing' the bug*/
* Removed compiler warnings from texteditor work
* Added round brackets around the new defines for IPO channels for extra texture layers
* Tweaked priorities so that BLI_heap_* functions in blenlib can be found by linker (split-sources specific)
TODO:
* "monkey*" vars cannot be found still
the features that are needed to run the game. Compile tested with
scons, make, but not cmake, that seems to have an issue not related
to these changes. The changes include:
* GLSL support in the viewport and game engine, enable in the game
menu in textured draw mode.
* Synced and merged part of the duplicated blender and gameengine/
gameplayer drawing code.
* Further refactoring of game engine drawing code, especially mesh
storage changed a lot.
* Optimizations in game engine armatures to avoid recomputations.
* A python function to get the framerate estimate in game.
* An option take object color into account in materials.
* An option to restrict shadow casters to a lamp's layers.
* Increase from 10 to 18 texture slots for materials, lamps, word.
An extra texture slot shows up once the last slot is used.
* Memory limit for undo, not enabled by default yet because it
needs the .B.blend to be changed.
* Multiple undo for image painting.
* An offset for dupligroups, so not all objects in a group have to
be at the origin.
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Merge of branch soc-2008-quorn to trunk:
Merged 14970:16308 to trunk@16307, updated to HEAD.
Merged 16318
Main features from this branch:
- Python text plugins
- Suggestions and documentation elements
- Improved syntax highlighting
- Word wrap
- Additional editing tools
- Various undo and clipboard fixes
- File header info and modification checks
- For newtonian particles a "self effect" button in particle extras makes the particles be effected by themselves if a particle effector is defined for this system, currently this is a brute force method so things start getting slow with more than ~100 particles, but this will hopefully change in the future.
- Two new effector types: charge and a Lennard-Jones potential based force (inter-molecular forces for example).
-Charge is similar to spherical field except it changes behavior (attract/repulse) based on the effected particles charge field (negative/positive) like real particles with a charge.
-The Lennard-Jones field is a very short range force with a behavior determined by the sizes of the effector and effected particle. At a distance smaller than the combined sizes the field is very repulsive and after that distance it's attractive. It tries to keep the particles at an equilibrium distance from each other. Particles need to be at a close proximity to each other to be effected by this field at all.
- Particle systems can now have two effector fields (two slots in the fields panel). This allows to create particles which for example have both a charge and a Lennard-Jones potential.
