When an NPC fire a projectile, it should affect only its targeted actor.
To this end, after a hit is detected the target is checked against the
list of AI targets and reactivated if necessary.
Problem occurs when the hit occurs as a result of a friendly actor going
into the projectile (detected in ClosestNotMeConvexResultCallback):
while the projectile is inside the friend's collision box, it is
deactivated, just to be immediately reactivated. Effectively, the
projectile does nothing until the actor moves out.
Add a check inside the ClosestNotMeConvexResultCallback before declaring
a hit.
Since the necessary data is not safely accessible from the async thread,
maintain a copy inside the Projectile class.
position being used under heavy load, I introduced a regression that
prevented the position to be updated in case of teleport.
Move the logic in its own function and decide in PhysicsSystem whether a
reset is needed.
be sure the simulation is over. Otherwise, if the simulation is too slow
the position is wrong, and the actors would jump back and forth between
old and new position instead of actually moving.
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.
it is updated in the solver only if the actor is standing on
"something". The ground is not "something", so in case the actor goes
from standing on an object to the standing on the ground, this change was not taken
into account.
Clear the value before the simulation to solve this problem.
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.
Change order of traversal simulation step to make it rare enough to be parallelizable
Before:
for actor in actors:
repeat numstep:
solve(actor)
After:
repeat numstep:
for actor in actors:
solve(actor)
Introduce struct ActorFrameData to pack all data that is necessary for
the solver
