rayCast(to,from,dist,prop,face,xray,poly):
The face paremeter determines the orientation of the normal:
0 or omitted => hit normal is always oriented towards the ray origin (as if you casted the ray from outside)
1 => hit normal is the real face normal (only for mesh object, otherwise face has no effect)
The ray has X-Ray capability if xray parameter is 1, otherwise the first object hit (other than self object) stops the ray.
The prop and xray parameters interact as follow:
prop off, xray off: return closest hit or no hit if there is no object on the full extend of the ray.
prop off, xray on : idem.
prop on, xray off: return closest hit if it matches prop, no hit otherwise.
prop on, xray on : return closest hit matching prop or no hit if there is no object matching prop on the full extend of the ray.
if poly is 0 or omitted, returns a 3-tuple with object reference, hit point and hit normal or (None,None,None) if no hit.
if poly is 1, returns a 4-tuple with in addition a KX_PolyProxy as 4th element.
The KX_PolyProxy object holds information on the polygon hit by the ray: the index of the vertex forming the poylgon, material, etc.
Attributes (read-only):
matname: The name of polygon material, empty if no material.
material: The material of the polygon
texture: The texture name of the polygon.
matid: The material index of the polygon, use this to retrieve vertex proxy from mesh proxy
v1: vertex index of the first vertex of the polygon, use this to retrieve vertex proxy from mesh proxy
v2: vertex index of the second vertex of the polygon, use this to retrieve vertex proxy from mesh proxy
v3: vertex index of the third vertex of the polygon, use this to retrieve vertex proxy from mesh proxy
v4: vertex index of the fourth vertex of the polygon, 0 if polygon has only 3 vertex
use this to retrieve vertex proxy from mesh proxy
visible: visible state of the polygon: 1=visible, 0=invisible
collide: collide state of the polygon: 1=receives collision, 0=collision free.
Methods:
getMaterialName(): Returns the polygon material name with MA prefix
getMaterial(): Returns the polygon material
getTextureName(): Returns the polygon texture name
getMaterialIndex(): Returns the material bucket index of the polygon.
getNumVertex(): Returns the number of vertex of the polygon.
isVisible(): Returns whether the polygon is visible or not
isCollider(): Returns whether the polygon is receives collision or not
getVertexIndex(vertex): Returns the mesh vertex index of a polygon vertex
getMesh(): Returns a mesh proxy
New methods of KX_MeshProxy have been implemented to retrieve KX_PolyProxy objects:
getNumPolygons(): Returns the number of polygon in the mesh.
getPolygon(index): Gets the specified polygon from the mesh.
More details in PyDoc.
This patch introduces a simple state engine system with the logic bricks. This system features full
backward compatibility, multiple active states, multiple state transitions, automatic disabling of
sensor and actuators, full GUI support and selective display of sensors and actuators.
Note: Python API is available but not documented yet. It will be added asap.
State internals
===============
The state system is object based. The current state mask is stored in the object as a 32 bit value;
each bit set in the mask is an active state. The controllers have a state mask too but only one bit
can be set: a controller belongs to a single state. The game engine will only execute controllers
that belong to active states. Sensors and actuators don't have a state mask but are effectively
attached to states via their links to the controllers. Sensors and actuators can be connected to more
than one state. When a controller becomes inactive because of a state change, its links to sensors
and actuators are temporarily broken (until the state becomes active again). If an actuator gets isolated,
i.e all the links to controllers are broken, it is automatically disabled. If a sensor gets isolated,
the game engine will stop calling it to save CPU. It will also reset the sensor internal state so that
it can react as if the game just started when it gets reconnected to an active controller. For example,
an Always sensor in no pulse mode that is connected to a single state (i.e connected to one or more
controllers of a single state) will generate a pulse each time the state becomes active. This feature is
not available on all sensors, see the notes below.
GUI
===
This system system is fully configurable through the GUI: the object state mask is visible under the
object bar in the controller's colum as an array of buttons just like the 3D view layer mask.
Click on a state bit to only display the controllers of that state. You can select more than one state
with SHIFT-click. The All button sets all the bits so that you can see all the controllers of the object.
The Ini button sets the state mask back to the object default state. You can change the default state
of object by first selecting the desired state mask and storing using the menu under the State button.
If you define a default state mask, it will be loaded into the object state make when you load the blend
file or when you run the game under the blenderplayer. However, when you run the game under Blender,
the current selected state mask will be used as the startup state for the object. This allows you to test
specific state during the game design.
The controller display the state they belong to with a new button in the controller header. When you add
a new controller, it is added by default in the lowest enabled state. You can change the controller state
by clicking on the button and selecting another state. If more than one state is enabled in the object
state mask, controllers are grouped by state for more readibility.
The new Sta button in the sensor and actuator column header allows you to display only the sensors and
actuators that are linked to visible controllers.
A new state actuator is available to modify the state during the game. It defines a bit mask and
the operation to apply on the current object state mask:
Cpy: the bit mask is copied to the object state mask.
Add: the bits that set in the bit mask will be turned on in the object state mask.
Sub: the bits that set in the bit mask will be turned off in the object state mask.
Inv: the bits that set in the bit mask will be inverted in the objecyy state mask.
Notes
=====
- Although states have no name, a simply convention consists in using the name of the first controller
of the state as the state name. The GUI will support that convention by displaying as a hint the name
of the first controller of the state when you move the mouse over a state bit of the object state mask
or of the state actuator bit mask.
- Each object has a state mask and each object can have a state engine but if several objects are
part of a logical group, it is recommended to put the state engine only in the main object and to
link the controllers of that object to the sensors and actuators of the different objects.
- When loading an old blend file, the state mask of all objects and controllers are initialized to 1
so that all the controllers belong to this single state. This ensures backward compatibility with
existing game.
- When the state actuator is activated at the same time as other actuators, these actuators are
guaranteed to execute before being eventually disabled due to the state change. This is useful for
example to send a message or update a property at the time of changing the state.
- Sensors that depend on underlying resource won't reset fully when they are isolated. By the time they
are acticated again, they will behave as follow:
* keyboard sensor: keys already pressed won't be detected. The keyboard sensor is only sensitive
to new key press.
* collision sensor: objects already colliding won't be detected. Only new collisions are
detected.
* near and radar sensor: same as collision sensor.
Shape Action are now supported in the BGE. A new type of actuator "Shape Action" is available on mesh objects. It can be combined with Action actuator on parent armature. Only relative keys are supported. All the usual action options are available: type, blending, priority, Python API. Only actions with shape channels should be specified of course, otherwise the actuator has no effect. Shape action will still work after a mesh replacement provided that the new mesh has compatible shape keys.
This patch consists in new KX_GameObject::SetParent() and KX_GameObject::RemoveParent() functions to create and destroy parent relation during game. These functions are accessible through python and through a new actuator KX_ParentActuator. Function documentation in PyDoc.
The object keeps its orientation, position and scale when it is parented but will further rotate, move and scale with its parent from that point on. When the parent relation is broken, the object keeps the orientation, position and scale it had at that time.
The function has no effect if any of the X/Y/Z scale of the object or its new parent are below Epsilon.
This should bring the projectfiles upto date for msvc7.
Moving these to version 7.1 so that the version 8 people don't have such a hard time importing into 2005.
Build intern.sln, extern.sln and then blender.sln. Enjoy. :p
- Added correct .libs to be linked to GP_Ghost
- Fixed incorrect library extensions for the linker (*.lib and not unix *.a)
- Projects have been set to be multi-threaded - projects were being linked to different versions of the CRT
- All projects are now linking to python 2.3 (this fixes an error regarding struct sizes in python)
- Removed invalid source paths from inclusion for the compiler
- Fix dependency issues with the GP_Ghost module
- Proper .dll's are now being copied to their respective locations for debug and release version of blender/blenderplayer
- Warnings have been set to level 2
- Import paths have been updated and organized for the compiler
- Duplicate import paths for the compiler have been removed
- Removed silly silly silly silly unix path-separators from window paths
- Post-Build scripts have been updated where neccessary (XCOPY is retatined)
- Fixed the output of various .lib files (PHY_Sumo and Yafray)
- PHY_Sumo now uses a .pch
- Removed #undef _DEBUG from debug builds :p
- FTF_Font is now contains a debug build and is being set to it's correct output path
- Blender/Blenderplayer/3DPlugin all linkto Debug libs where appropriate (instead of static release libs to avoid conflicts with the CRT)
- Python23_d.dll is now loaded into a true debug output of both blenderplayer and blender debug builds
- msvcrtd.dll is now loaded into a true debug output of both blenderplayer and blender debug builds
- Post-builds now clean up their mess
- ActiveX controller now builds
- BlenderPlayer now builds
- Internal libs now using .pch
- Moved the build directory from /blender/obj to ../build/msvc_7/ to follow precedence with scons builds
- Builds are now organized to follow precedence with scons builds with a /libs and a /intern /extern /source obj folders
- Set the proper build path for opennl
- Forcing BLO_loader source files to follow project defaults
- Added an 'extern' project that mimics the /make build of the 'intern' project
- Extern build includes solid and it's associated builds, ftgl, and freetype
- Added .vcproj files to /extern directory
- Added new extern.sln file to /extern directory
- All project now link to the built solid.lib from the extern project instead of lib/windows
- Removed uneeded XCOPYs commands from post-builds
- Added conditional Directory building to post-builds
- Freetype2 source commit (this is need for the building of a correct MFC linked version of the activeX controller as well as a correct release and debug build of the blender project)
- Ftgl is built and linked by the 'extern' project
- Intern/Extern project are now exporting their proper header files
- PHY_Physics is now linking to the correct set of header files (in build path not source)
- Makesdna builds object files into build directory now
- Projects are now ignoring the CORRECT versions of the CRT's :)
- Renderconverter is now outputting it's obj file to it's own directory instead of /render
- Gen_system is now being built to ../kernel
- BL_src_cre is now being built to /creator
- *.exp and *.ilk are now being cleaned up from linkers
- Libpng.dll and zlib.dll are now being copied to the /bin
- MTDLL build are now available for the correct projects
- ActiveX 3D Plugin now links correctly to solid and freetype2
- Corrected the Preprocessor #define that was labeled incorrectly in FTF_Font and Blender that was causing the FTGL libs to export dll calling conventions.
- Changed the solution configurations to 3D Plugin Release, Debug and Blender Release, Debug for internal and external librarys
- Changed the solution configurations to 3D Plugin Release, Debug and Blender Release, Debug for blender and added 2 new solutions configurations BlenderPlayer Release, Debug
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