Physics improvement

[jhooks1]

Had to clone my fork of openengine, couldn't get it working the way you described. Committed the changes. Still don't have it hooked up properly to my openmw branch.

EDIT: Screwed up my openmw branch, will have to remove it and start over.

EDIT2: Made a physicsupdate2 branch, I think everything is hooked up right now.

[Zini]

Looks okay from here.

[jhooks1]

Trying to make our physics objects similar to the method in CreateNewPhysicsObjects() in NewPhysics.cpp of Project Aedra. Was hoping for an improvement, so far it crashes.

[ElderTroll]

Hey Jhooks, just wanted to let you know this is what Tom said about the physics, "... I'm glad that you guys like my physics implementation. Feel free to peek at it and take pieces of it if you like - I might end up using chunks of OpenMW's animations code in the future as well." It's not very important, but I liked that because you're working on both these issues. So it's you and Tom exchanging code.

[psi29a]

So it's you and Tom exchanging code.

Cross pollination, it helps both survive.

[jhooks1]

Got rid of the crash but this implementation isn't working for me, collision only works on some objects this way. Probably going to stash the code away (may have to come back later) and try a different approach. To get aedra like physics we may have to use Aedra's modified bullet, which would probably take a while to integrate into our system.

At least the falling bug is gone.

The biggest problems with our implementation are:
1. Stairs - some stairs do not work at all. Others when walking up give a really messed up view, it is like you are stuck in between the steps rocking back and forth.
2. Getting stuck - sometimes we get stuck on or in between objects and we have to turn collision off to get out.

[ElderTroll]

That's great that the falling bug is gone. That was really annoying. I say do it you should do it. Maybe that could be your main focus for the 0.13.0 release? Are the 0.14.0 and 0.15.0 roadmaps up somewhere?

Also the devs at Ogre were saying that the holdup with 1.8 is that they found some bugs (sound familiar?), but that it should be out soon.

[werdanith]

Are the 0.14.0 and 0.15.0 roadmaps up somewhere?

http://bugs.openmw.org:81/projects/openmw/roadmap

[ElderTroll]

Thanks

[jhooks1]

Hey Jhooks, just wanted to let you know this is what Tom said about the physics, "... I'm glad that you guys like my physics implementation. Feel free to peek at it and take pieces of it if you like - I might end up using chunks of OpenMW's animations code in the future as well." It's not very important, but I liked that because you're working on both these issues. So it's you and Tom exchanging code.

What is Tom's email? Wondering which critical bullet components were modified for project aedra.