PhysicsConstraints module documented by Jean-François (Ninja Goliath) based on GameKit 2nd ed.
Thanks for the initiative and the great help!
General advice for anyone helping with EpyDocs:
* use :: instead of : to keep the indentation correct,
* use B{} for clarity when needed (e.g. createConstraints)
Adding F13 to F19 to complement Matt's recent commit
* There are other (not so important) functions in PhysicsConstraints module that are not exposed in the documentation right now.
The generated page is temporarily here, if someone want to review it:
http://blenderecia.orgfree.com/blender/tmp/PhysicsConstraints-module.html
The patch exposes mouse and keyboard read-only properties in the GameLogic module
Also renames bge.keys to bge.events (* Note: name of bge submodules (logic, render, ...) may change before 2.5 final release [right Campbell?]).
"""
This patch adds two new types to the BGE:
SCA_PythonKeyboard
SCA_PythonMouse
These two types allow users to make use of the keyboard and mouse without the need for a keyboard or mouse sensor.
SCA_PythonKeyboard has an events property that acts just like SCA_KeyboardSensor.events.
SCA_PythonMouse also has an events property to check for mouse events. Further more it supports getting and setting normalized cursor position (from 0.0 to 1.0) with SCA_PythonMouse.position. The cursor can be shown/hidden using SCA_PythonMouse.visible.
"""
Its use is similar with current mouse and keyboard controllers. With the exception of mouse position being normalized and writable as well (replacing Rasterizer.setMousePosition).
Code Sample:
######
from bge import logic, events
mouse = logic.mouse
keyboard = logic.keyboard
for key,status in keyboard.events:
if status == logic.KX_INPUT_JUST_ACTIVATED:
if key == events.WKEY:
print(mouse.position)
# move_forward()
mouse.visible = True # turn cursor visible
mouse.position = 0.5,0.5 # centralize mouse - use tuple
######
* Important Note: mouse.position still will not work properly for Letterbox mode.
In order to fix letterboxing I may need to move the set x,y mouse function to inside the canvas code (to avoid duplicated code between mouse sensor and bge.logic.mouse). I'll leave this for another commit though.
Thanks Mitchell for the work on that.
- added new mathutils.Color() type, use with rna so we can do for eg:
material.diffuse_color.r = 1.0
# also has hsv access
material.diffuse_color.s = 0.6
- made Mathutils and Geometry module names lowercase.
We have already a .sh file to build epydocs from Linux, so why not to have it in Windows as well ;) I think that this guide can help people interested in help with the API documentation to test their work.
I'm actually already in touch with at least one volunteer helping with PhysicsConstraints module. VideoTexture may not be a one man job though, for I hope this document can also help.
of course it wasn't only a matter of adding the properties in the api :)
The code of validValueForIntervalProperty and modeChange are the same BUT in the future they shouldn't be, for I think it's fine to keep them as separated functions.
Bonus fix: Also we are now checking if the new mode is interval and update the range expression.
Add optional parameter to VideoTexture.Texture refresh() method
to specify timestamp (in seconds from start of movie) of the frame
to be loaded. This value is passed down to image source and for
VideoFFmpeg source, it is used instead of current time to load
the frame from the video file.
When combined with an audio actuator, it can be used to synchronize
the sound and the image: specify the same video file in the sound
actuator and use the KX_SoundActuator time attribute as timestamp
to refresh: the frame corresponding to the sound will be loaded:
GameLogic.video.refresh(True, soundAct.time)
PhysicsConstraints is documented in the Game Kit Book:
http://download.blender.org/documentation/gamekit1/
VideoTexture is documented in the wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/2.49/VideoTexture
I don't think I will have time to fill the documentation. But I hope this commit helps someone interested in helping it.
Therefore volunteers to document those modules are highly welcome !!! (let's give to BGE the documentation it deserves)!
* + added GameLogic.Lave/LoadGlobalDict + some typo fixes
How it works now:
whenever you have to read/write object names you can do it without the prefix "OB". (it's not hard at all to fix scripts)
How it was before:
It was a mess :)
We had an inconsistent API where sometimes you had to input "OBname" and other "name" directly to assign object as data (usually in actuators).
Justification for the change:
Talking with Campbell we had since a while ago this feeling that this should be changed any time we were going to deprecate the API. So in order to deliver Blender 2.5beta0 with a more close-to-the-final API we decided that today was a good day to implement that.
Remaining issues:
1) VideoTexture uses IM or MA to identify the output material/texture. I haven't touched that, but it does look a bit off. (i.e. I didn't changed any MA, IM naming)
2) I didn't see the code of dynamic mesh. It may need to be edited as well.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/Unix_FHS
for scons WITH_BF_FHS enabled an alternative layout eg.
scons WITH_BF_FHS=1 BF_INSTALLDIR="/usr/local"
for CMake just run "make install" after make (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is used for the base path)
Currently only scripts use both the system and user path correctly, other areas of blender have their own path code inline with lots of ifdefs, needs to be carefully updated.
Instead use __contains__, eg.
if key in gameOb: ...
Mathutils returns from PyMath.cpp were incorrectly using wrapped Mathutils types. Wrapped types should only be used with a callback now.
Previously the only way to detect if the mouse moved over a different object was to enable true-level-triggering and have a python script detect the change.
When the Pulse option is set, focusing on a different object pulses true.
Python attribute is focusSensor.usePulseFocus.
This is similar to the collision sensors pulse option where changes in the set of collision objects generates an event too.
Found this functionality missing when trying to make a logic demo that used mouse-over with overlapping objects.
When the mesh field is left blank and Physics option is enabled, it reinstances the physics mesh from the existing mesh.
like calling gameOb.reinstancePhysicsMesh() from python.
Add support back for reinstancePhysics mesh, a frequently requested feature in the BGE forums.
from what I can tell Sumo supported this but bullet never did.
Currently only accessible via python at the moment.
- rigid body, dynamic, static types work.
- instanced physics meshes are modified too.
- compound shapes are not supported.
Physics mesh can be re-instanced from...
* shape keys & armature deformations
* subsurf (any other modifiers too)
* RAS_TexVert's (can be modified from python)
Moved the reinstancePhysicsMesh functions from RAS_MeshObject into KX_GameObject since the physics data is stored here.
video and blend file demo.
http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/reinstance.ogvhttp://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/reinstance_demo.blend
while making a demo of using python to control bones found some more problems.
also added channelNames attribute to BL_ActionActuator to get a list of valid channels to use.
demo: http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/armature_python.blend
its still not that useful since theres not way to know rest bone locations yet but better then nothing.
* extract_pose_from_pose only checked one of the list items for NULL when looping over them yet its possible they are different sizes.
* game_free_pose needed to be used rather then MEM_freeN, channels would never be freed leaking memory.
* setChannel() would make a new pose that wasnt aligned with the existing pose, the lists are assumed aligned so when extracting the channels its unlikely this was ever useful.
* Added getChannel() - returns pose loc/size/quat
* Added option args for setChannel(channel, matrix) or setChannel(channel, loc, size, quat)
* Removed modules Expression and CValue, neither were ever available.
* Added GameLogic.EvalExpression(exp) from the Expression module, evaluates an expression like the expression controller (not sure if this is really that useful since python is far more advanced).
* resetting the original blend file path didint work (own fault == -> =)
* Py3.x PyModule_Create didnt allow importing since it didn't add to sys.modules,
Looks like they want us to use init-tab array, but this doesn't suit us since
it needs to be setup before python is initialized.
* Documented GameLogic.globalDict
Internal texts file on disk is not used it seems python warnings dont support this (even though exceptions do).
The most common cause of this is passing a float as an argument to a method that took an int.
get around this by setting __file__ in the namespace to the script name before executing the script, the file lines are not found but at least the output is not weird and confusing.
Added read only 'mode' attribute to the python controller so there is a way to tell if its executing a module or a script. Updated docs to better explain execution methods.
- Deprecation warnings for using attribute access
- Added dictionary functions to KX_GameObject and ListValue
ob.get(key, default=None)
ob.has_key(key)
ob.has_key is important since there was no way to do something like hasattr(ob, "attr") which can be replaced by ob.has_key("attr") - (both still work of course).
ob.get is just useful in many cases where you want a property if it exists but can fallback to a default.
- CListValue::FindValue was adding a reference but the ~3 places it was used were releasing the reference. added a FindValue that accepts a const char* type to avoid converting python strings to STR_String.
bug reported by blenderage on blenderartist (found other bugs too).
- "All Hat Events" didnt work.
- Multiple hats didnt work
- use a menu with direction names rather then have the user guess. disallow zero as a direction.
- Allow up to 4 hats (was 2).
- Python api was clamping the axis to 2, maximum is currently JOYAXIS_MAX - 16
- New python attributes hatValues and hatSingle, match axis functions.
- Use SDL Axis events to fill in the axis and hat array rather then filling in every axis with SDL_JoystickGetAxis for each axis event.
- Fixed some deprecation warnings in documentation.
- Added more conversions to script.
- Added more attributes to script todo list.
- Print out name of text buffer when encountering an error in batch mode.
- Refactor: Simplified attribute map.
- Added notImplemented function to print warnings for missing conversions. References documentation.
Patch from Alex Fraser (z0r)
- All attributes in the conversion map have been checked against the docs. More ambiguities have been resolved.
- Added option to convert all text buffers in Blender.
- Updated GameTypes.py: there were inconsistencies.
The script works well (causes no errors) with 0_FPS_Template.blend and vehicle_demo.blend from the
physics-2.43-physics-testfiles pack.
Caveats:
- Conversions were checked against other deprecated attributes. I may have missed some cases where a deprecated attribute
has the same name as a non-deprecated attribute. I did catch a few though.
- As with the last version, the conversion is purely text-based and doesn't compile the code. It's easy to create a
script that would break on conversion.
Still, it should get you 90% of the way to a converted script.
Four new buttons in World settings to control frame rate:
fps: Nominal frame rate in frame per second.
Also sets the physics timestep = 1/fps
phys: Maximum number of physics timestep per game frame in case
the actual fps is less than nominal. This allows the
physics to keep up with real time even if the graphics slows
down the game.
sub: Fixed number of simulation substeps per physic timestep.
Improves the precision of the physics simulation. Useful for
fast moving objects for example.
log: Maximum number of logic steps per game frame in case the
actual fps is less than nominal. This allows the logic
system to follow the physics simulation.
Upper bound = phys
(setting the value higher than phys has no effect).
On games with heavy logic system, it is useful to set this
value to 1, to keep logic time under control.
All these values were already accessible from Python except phys:
GameLogic.getMaxPhysicsFrame():
Gets the maximum number of physics frame per render frame.
GameLogic.setMaxPhysicsFrame(phys):
Sets the maximum number of physics timestep that are executed per render frame.
Higher value allows physics to keep up with realtime even if graphics slows down the game.
Physics timestep is fixed and equal to 1/tickrate (see setLogicTicRate)
maxphysics/ticrate is the maximum delay of the renderer that physics can compensate.
phys: integer
Compound shape control
======================
1) GUI control
It is now possible to control which child shape is added to
a parent compound shape in the Physics buttons. The "Compound"
shape button becomes "Add to parent" on child objects and
determines whether the child shape is to be added to the top
parent compound shape when the game is stated.
Notes: * "Compound" is only available to top parent objects
(objects without parent).
* Nesting of compound shape is not possible: a child
object with "Add to parent" button set will be added
to the top parent compound shape, regardless of its
position in the parent-child hierarchy and even if its
immediate parent doesn't have the "Add to parent" button set.
2) runtime control
It is now possible to control the compound shape at runtime:
The SetParent actuator has a new "Compound" button that indicates
whether the object shape should be added to the compound shape
of the parent object, provided the parent has a compound shape
of course. If not, the object retain it's individual state
while parented.
Similarly, the KX_GameObject.setParent() python function has
a new compound parameter.
Notes: * When an object is dynamically added to a compound
shape, it looses temporarily all its physics capability
to the benefit of the parent: it cannot register collisions
and the characteristics of its shape are lost (ghost, sensor,
dynamic, etc.).
* Nested compound shape is not supported: if the object
being parented is already a compound shape, it is not
added to the compound parent (as if the Compound option
was not set in the actuator or the setParent function).
* To ensure compatibility with old blend files, the Blender
subversion is changed to 2.48.5 and the old blend files
are automatically converted to match the old behavior:
all children of a Compound object will have the "Add to
parent" button set automatically.
Child ghost control
===================
It is now possible to control if an object should becomes ghost
or solid when parented. This is only applicable if the object
is not added to the parent compound shape (see above).
A new "Ghost" button is available on the SetParent actuator to
that effect. Similarly the KX_GameObject.setParent() python function
has a new compound parameter.
Notes: * This option is not applicable to sensor objects: they stay
ghost all the time.
* Make sure the child object does not enter in collision with
the parent shape when the Ghost option if off and the parent is
dynamic: the collision creates a reaction force but the parent
cannot escape the child, so the force builds up and produces
eratic movements.
* The collision capability of an ordinary object (dynamic or static)
is limited when it is parented: it becomes automatically static
and can only detect dynamic and sensor objects.
* A sensor object retain its full collision capability when parented:
it can detect static and dynamic object.
Python control
==============
KX_GameObject.setParent(parent,compound,ghost):
Sets this object's parent.
Control the shape status with the optional compound and ghost parameters:
compound=1: the object shape should be added to the parent compound shape (default)
compound=0: the object should keep its individual shape.
In that case you can control if it should be ghost or not:
ghost=1 if the object should be made ghost while parented (default)
ghost=0 if the object should be solid while parented
Note: if the object type is sensor, it stays ghost regardless of ghost parameter
parent: KX_GameObject reference or string (object name w/o OB prefix)
Patch from Roger Wickes update to 2.48 sFrame, eFrame, fps.
[#18794] GE API conversion script: 2.48 -> 2.49
patch from Alex Fraser (z0r), will test further in the next few days.
---
This is text plug in and standalone script that updates Blender 2.48 Game Engine scripts to be compatible with the 2.49
API.
The script contains a mapping of attribute names to functions that do the conversion. Most of the mappings were extracted
from the documentation in GameTypes.py. Where the conversion is ambiguous, the script will not change the source except
to insert a warning as a comment. This means that the script does not completely automate the conversion process, but
will do a lot of the work.
The script still needs a fair bit of testing. Many of the mappings have not been tested and could result in broken scripts.
I'm submitting this patch now to start the review process early. I think I might need help if it is to be included in
2.49.
The modules were moved in order to access the camera internal matrixes. It will make then compatible with multiple viewports in a near future.
So far the problem I found was:
1) KX_Camera doesn't store the canvas viewport
2) RAS_ICanvas methods: GetDisplayArea and GetWindowArea are affected by multiple viewports (and they shouldn't).
Test file is here: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/68
Servo control motion actuator did not work as expected when the object
is moving on a moving platform.
This patch introduces a new Ref field in the servo motion actuator
to set a reference object for the velocity calculation.
You can set the object during the game using the actuator "reference"
attribute; use an object name or an object reference.
The servo controller takes into account the angular velocity of the
reference object to compute the relative local velocity.
A new bookmark button is available on the controller UI.
When set, the controller is guaranteed to execute before all
other non-bookmarked controllers, provided it is scheduled
for execution.
This is useful for initialization scripts that run once at startup or
scripts that must set some prerequisite for the other controllers at
the start of each logic frame.
This feature is also available at python level with the "bookmark"
attribute. It can be changed during the game.
Note that if several script are bookmarked, their relative order of
execution is not guaranteed. Make sure they don't depend on each other.
- corrections to docs
- disallow calling controller.activate(actuator) when the controller is not active. (Raise a SystemError)
- Added 2 new attributes, CValue.name - deprecates CValue.getName(), KX_GameObject.children deprecated KX_GameObject.getChildren(), (same for getChildrenRecursive()).
KX_GameObject.getVelocity() would set an error but nor return an error value when an non vector argument was given.
KX_PythonSeq_Type was not initialized with PyType_Ready which could crash blender when inspecting the type.
