One of the issue since the introduction of async physics is the quirky
handling of scripted moves. Previous attempt to account for them was
based on detecting changes in actor position while the physics thread is
running. To this end, semantics of Actor::updatePosition() (which is
responsible for set the absolute position of an actor in the world) was
toned down to merely store the desired position, with the physics system
actually responsible for moving the actor. For the cases were complete
override of the physics simulation was needed, I introduced
Actor::resetPosition(), which actually have same semantics as
original updatePosition(). This in turn introduced a loads of new bugs
when the weakened semantics broke key assumptions inside the engine
(spawning, summoning, teleport, etc).
Instead of tracking them down, count on the newly introduced support for
object relative movements in the engine (World::moveObjectBy) to
register relative movements and restore original handling of absolute positionning.
Changes are relatively small:
- move resetPosition() content into updatePosition()
- call updatePosition() everywhere it was called before
- remove all added calls to the now non-existing resetPosition()
tldr; ditch last month worth of bug introduction and eradication and redo
it properly
This gives finer control over reseting positions (switch off tcl is no
longer glitchy) and solve most of the erroneous usage of stale World::Ptr
indicated by:
"Error in frame: moveTo: object is not in this cell"
its current position.
Use it in relevant MWScripts opcode (move and moveworld).
Remove the fragile detection of scripted translation from PhysicsTaskScheduler.
No user visible change, just a more robust mechanism.
the interpolation calculation would kick in and make the actor goes upward if the
spawn point is higher than summoner or downward if lower. The actor
would then either jump or fall through terrain.
Discard physics simulation results after fast forward
See merge request OpenMW/openmw!423
(cherry picked from commit ff2d7695698341ef059c75707aa092cef48deea4)
03a37433 In case of time fast forward (resting, jail), force reset of positions
Before this change, if an actor position was changed while the physics
simulation was running, the simulation result would be discarded. It is
fine in case of one off event such as teleport, but in the case of
scripts making use of this functionality to make lifts or conveyor (such
as Sotha Sil Expanded mod) it broke actor movement.
To alleviate this issue, at the end of the simulation, the position of the Actor
in the world is compared to the position it had at the beginning of the
simulation. A difference indicate a force move occured. In this case,
the Actor mPosition and mPreviousPosition are translated by the difference of position.
Since the Actor position will be really set while the next simulation runs, we
save it in the mNextPosition field.
Container base record mutations
See merge request OpenMW/openmw!353
(cherry picked from commit 8b33765dd414680f0074b3e115b52b291b4cb7cb)
275908a0 mutate container base records
16fca11d add changelog entry
Before movement calculation, the main thread prepare a
vector of ActorFrameData, which contains all data necessary to perform
the simulation, and feed it to the solver. At the same time it fetches
the result from the previous background simulation, which in turn is
used by the game mechanics.
Other functions of the physics system (weapon hit for instance)
interrupt the background simulation, with some exceptions described
below.
The number of threads is controlled by the numeric setting
[Physics]
async num threads
In case 'async num threads' > 1 and Bullet doesn't support multiple threads,
1 async thread will be used. 0 means synchronous solver.
Additional settings (will be silently switched off if async num threads = 0)
[Physics]
defer aabb update
Update AABBs of actors and objects in the background thread(s). It is not an especially
costly operation, but it needs exclusive access to the collision world, which blocks
other operations. Since AABB needs to be updated for collision detection, one can queue
them to defer update before start of the movement solver. Extensive tests on as much
as one installation (mine) show no drawback having that switched on.
[Physics]
lineofsight keep inactive cache
Control for how long (how many frames) the line of sight (LOS) request will be kept updated.
When a request for LOS is made for the first time, the background threads are stopped to
service it. From now on, the LOS will be refreshed preemptively as part of the background
routine until it is not required for lineofsight keep inactive cache frames. This mean
that subsequent request will not interrupt the background computation.
