The new values come from comments in the official HelloWorld.cpp. After
the changes the any increase of memory consumption is within the
measurement error.
This allows them to be initialized/destroyed from multiple threads in
any order. Previously, the first thread to require a module had to be
the last thread to use the module, otherwise it would be destroyed too
early.
There are still a few issues. If the main thread doesn't require a
module, it won't pick up the conf.lua settings. Also graphics isn't
handling the shader cache writing properly. And I think this breaks the
headset-graphics refcounting. But these will be fixed in future
commits.
The "vec3 is 4 floats" thing was consistently confusing to people. It's
reverted everywhere except for Curve.
maf now has full sets of methods for vec2/vec3/vec4, for consistency.
Vector bindings now use luax_readvec* helper functions for the
number/vector variants, and use maf for most functionality, which cleans
things up a lot.
- Add helper functions for creating shapes to avoid duplication between
newShape and newShapeCollider.
- Add lovr.physics.newMeshShape and lovr.physics.newTerrainShape
- Register TerrainShape so it has all the base Shape methods
- Smooth out a few TerrainShape warnings
Physics world's "quick step" is executed in multiple iteration steps.
The getter and setter for this value is now made available as two new
methods in the World object.
This is allows user to balance between the less accurate but quick
simulations, and more stable behavior of physics.
Something similar was already possible, by reducing the delta time and
running the sim multiple times per frame. However, any force user applies
to collider is zeroed after each step. User would thus have to keep track
of applied forces, and re-apply them inside the physics iteration loop.
By default ODE uses 20 iterations in quick step.
Currently there is a single allocator function used in arr_t. Its
behavior depends on the values for the pointer and size arguments:
- If pointer is NULL, it should allocate new memory.
- If pointer is non-NULL and size is positive, it should resize memory.
- If size is zero, it should free memory.
All instances of arr_t use realloc for this right now. The problem
is that realloc's behavior is undefined when the size argument is zero.
On Windows and Linux, realloc will free the pointer, but on macOS this
isn't the case. This means that arr_t leaks memory on macOS.
It's best to not rely on undefined behavior like this, so let's instead
use a helper function that behaves the way we want.
ODE errors, debugs and messages are redirected into LOVR's log system
by a callback mechanism for each.
The ODE submodule is updated to revision that does not crash when error
or debug occurs.
Tightness parameter is amount of force is exerted on collider to resolve
collisions and enforce joint operation. Low values make joints loose,
high values make it tight and can cause collider to overshot the joint
target. With tightness set to 0 the joint loses its function. Going
above 1 puts even more energy into joint oscillations. Tightness
parameter is called ERP in ODE manual.
The responseTime affects the time constant of physics simulation, both
for collisions and for joint inertia. Low responseTime values make
simulation tight and fast, higher values make it sluggish. For
collisions it affects how fast penetration is resolved, with higher
values resulting in spongy objects with more surface penetration and
slower collision resolving. For joints the responseTime is similar to
inertia, with higher responseTime values resulting in slow oscillations.
The oscillation frequency is also affected by collider mass, so
responseTime can be used to tweak the joint to get desired frequency
with specific collider mass. Values higher than 1 are often desirable,
especially for very light objects. Unlike tightness, responseTime is
tweaked in orders of magnitude with useful values (depending on mass)
being between 10^-8 and 10^8.
Both parameters can be applied to World for simulation-wide usage, or
specified per-joint in case of distance and ball joints. Other joints
don't allow customizing these parameters, and will use World settings
instead..
bjorn
Josip Miskovic
xiejiangzhi
Patrik Sjöberg
bjorn