One important thing to keep in mind when using this feature is that you'll need to flip your textures vertically (both the GIMP and Photoshop DDS tools I've seen have support for this on export). This is a quirk in using a texture format originally made for DirectX/DirectDraw, and flipping the compressed data is a real headache. Another quick fix for this issue is to change the Y value for the Size in the Mapping panel in the Texture properties to -1 (default is 1).
Right now this is being fixed by not allowing the exact same action (action, start/end frames, speed, etc) to be played if it's already playing. Hopefully this will not cause more issues than it solves.
Blender's import function check's the Text datablocks in main for additional modules for importing. However, libloaded scenes were 1) not loading Text datablocks and 2) not letting bpy know about them. Text datablocks are now loaded if a Scene is loaded and bpy can now looking through extra Mains to find additional modules.
Custom shaders is a case where the BGE can be using GLSL materials and still need to upload textures without bf_gpu. I tweaked some logic to handle this special case and added more comments.
KX_RadarSensor.angle was returning the angle that was used to construct Bullet's physics shape, which is calculated from the logic brick gui. KX_RadarSensor.angle now recalculates the original value from the gui. However, m_coneradius isn't actually used by KX_RadarSensor that I can see, so it might be better to just assign the original angle to m_coneradius instead of the calculated value. I've also made KX_RadarSensor.angle read-only, since setting m_coneradius does not appear to have any affect, which means writing to KX_RadarSensor.angle never worked properly.
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This patch adds a new "Character" BGE physics type which uses Bullet's btKinematicCharacter for simulation instead of full-blown dynamics. It is appropiate for (player-controlled) characters, for which the other physics types often result unexpected results (bouncing off walls, sliding etc.) and for which simple kinematics offers much more precision.
"Character" can be chosen like any other physics type in the "Physics" section of the properties window. Current settings for tweaking are "Step Height" (to make the object automatically climb small steps if it collides with them), "Fall Speed" (the maximum speed that the object can have when falling) and "Jump Speed", which is currently not used.
See http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=28476&group_id=9
for sample blends and a discussion on the patch: how to use it and what influences the behavior of the character object.
Known problem: there is a crash if the "compound" option is set in the physics panel of the Character object.
The code was looking to see if the priority was strictly greater than the current priority, but it seems that an equal priority should also override (at least the report seems to suggest that this is the behavior from 2.49).
* Shadow color now usable in the BGE
* Simplified the shadow panel while "Blender Game" renderer is active
* Added variance shadow maps for the BGE
* Buffered shadows on sun lamps in the BGE (orthographic)
* Light textures in the BGE
This bug was caused by r45902. CcdPhysicsController::RelativeRotate() was reading 2 values past the input because it was actually being passed a float[12] when it asked for a float[9] by KX_BulletPhysicsController::RelativeRotate(). Now KX_BulletPhysicsController::RelativeRotate() passes in a float[9] like it should have done to begin with.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/ray_linn/GCC-4.7.0-with-ada/mingw-w64-gcc-4.7.0-runtime-2.0.1-static-ada-20120330.7z/download
Other builds may also work but due to the constantly changing nature of the compiler this cannot be guaranteed. I often had to change compilers while building the libraries and this one is the one that did the job for most of them.
This first support is experimental and considered "advanced". To enable pass -DWITH_MINGW64 during cmake configuration. Also make sure to extract the compiler on C:/MinGW and that MinGW/bin is in your path. To build check out lib/mingw64.
Initially the support is lacking until I get every library compiled correctly. For now you should disable WITH_CYCLES(sorry, I know some people are dying to do benchmarks, but still a few libs to go), WITH_IMAGE_OPENEXR, WITH_OPENCOLLADA, WITH_LIBMV and WITH_CODEC_FFMPEG(links but hangs on startup).
Still the tools are working, the memory limit is increased and due to the experimental nature of the setup, full optimization with SSE2 is available, which makes the build quite fast. Also the compiler and especially, the linker are way faster than regular MinGW.
The wiki docs have also updated. Happy testing!
The steering actuator was filling its m_obstacle member when it was created (i.e., conversion time), which meant it had the wrong pointer after the actuator was replicated. Now m_obstacle is reassigned when the actuator is replicated.
In fact there were several issues fixed (all of them regressions since bmesh merge):
- Creating navmesh crashed because creating new faces for mesh was trying to set
default values for all customdata layers in this face. This requires memory
pool created for this datablock.
Usually this pool is creating on creating datablock if there're some elements
to be stored in this block. In cases of regular primitive creating it wasn't
an issue because they doesn't create customdata layers, they only creates
geometry.
Navigation mesh creates geometry and customdata layers (CD_RECAST layer)
which used to confuse a bit custom data functions. Solved by ensuring there's
memory pool created for polygons datablock after adding new custom data layer.
Most probably it's better to be resolved on CD level (like smarter track on
changed amount of stored data and so) but prefer not to make such global changes
so close to the release.
- Toggling edit mode lead to loosing recast datalayer. Solved by adding recast
layer to bmesh mask so it'll be copied to/from edit mesh.
- Some part of code assumed raycast layer is in face datablock, some that it's in
polygon datablock. Made it to be in polygons datablock.
Kind of temporary solution to make navmesh working, probably it'll fail if one
will want to edit navmesh by hand after it was generated.
Proper way would be to ensure the whole navmesh things are using ngons.
note: this was never correct and not a single soul bothered noticing that.
not really a surprise, this mode is more for debug than for anything else.
to test go to (game engine) Render -> Dome Mode -> Spherical Panorama
thanks to Aldo Zang to help me spotting the problem.
--debug
--debug-ffmpeg
--debug-python
--debug-events
--debug-wm
This makes debug output easier to read - event debug prints would flood output too much before.
For convenience:
--debug-all turns all debug flags on (works as --debug did before).
also removed some redundant whitespace in debug prints and prefix some prints with __func__ to give some context.
