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13 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Benoit Bolsee
362202cc14 Fix an undefined variable bug detected by valgrind. 2009-05-05 22:32:15 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
3abb8e8e68 BGE performance: second round of scenegraph improvement.
Use dynamic linked list to handle scenegraph rather than dumb scan
of the whole tree. The performance improvement depends on the fraction
of moving objects. If most objects are static, the speed up is 
considerable. The following table compares the time spent on 
scenegraph before and after this commit on a scene with 10000 objects
in various configuratons:

Scenegraph time (ms)              Before         After
(includes culling)

All objects static,               8.8            1.7  
all visible but small fraction          
in the view frustrum

All objects static,               7,5            0.01
all invisible.

All objects moving,               14.1           8.4
all visible but small fraction
in the view frustrum

This tables shows that static and invisible objects take no CPU at all
for scenegraph and culling. In the general case, this commit will 
speed up the scenegraph between 2x and 5x. Compared to 2.48a, it should
be between 4x and 10x faster. Further speed up is possible by making
the scenegraph cache-friendly.

Next round of performance improvement will be on the rasterizer: use
the same dynamic linked list technique for the mesh slots.
2009-05-03 22:29:00 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
51b4145841 BGE Scenegraph and View frustrum culling improvement.
This commit contains a number of performance improvements for the
BGE in the Scenegraph (parent relation between objects in the
scene) and view frustrum culling.

The scenegraph improvement consists in avoiding position update
if the object has not moved since last update and the removal
of redundant updates and synchronization with the physics engine.

The view frustrum culling improvement consists in using the DBVT
broadphase facility of Bullet to build a tree of graphical objects
in the scene. The elements of the tree are Aabb boxes (Aligned 
Axis Bounding Boxes) enclosing the objects. This provides good
precision in closed and opened scenes. This new culling system
is enabled by default but just in case, it can be disabled with
a button in the World settings. There is no do_version in this
commit but it will be added before the 2.49 release. For now you
must manually enable the DBVT culling option in World settings
when you open an old file.

The above improvements speed up scenegraph and culling up to 5x.
However, this performance improvement is only visible when
you have hundreds or thousands of objects.

The main interest of the DBVT tree is to allow easy occlusion
culling and automatic LOD system. This will be the object of further
improvements.
2009-04-07 22:14:06 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
5e2ee19187 BGE patch: support for partial hierarchy in dupligroup instantiation; removal of links that point to inactive objects during group instantiation.
This situation corresponds to a group containing only a portion
of a parent hierarchy (the Apricot team needed that to avoid
logic duplication). The BGE will instantiate only the
children that are in the group so that it follows the 3D view
more closely.
As a result, the logic links to the objects in the portion of the
hierarchy that was not replicated will point to inactive objects
(if the groups are stored in inactive layers as they should be). 
To keep the logic system consistent, these links are automatically
removed.
This last part of the patch is a general fix that could go in
2.47 but as this situation does not normally occurs in pre-2.47
games, it is not needed.
2008-07-18 19:56:56 +00:00
Campbell Barton
fc7a83b458 Added access for adjusting timeOffset value at runtime, used for apricot (Franky climbing walls) 2008-06-14 17:12:49 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
a6a4b78417 Fix BGE bug #7532: TrackTo Actuator does not work correctly if it has a Vertex Parent. This is only a partial fix: the user must put the parent vertex at the center of the parent object and disable the physics on the tracking object (use empty or collision free object). 2008-05-14 20:22:57 +00:00
Chris Want
5d0a207ecb Patch from GSR that a) fixes a whole bunch of GPL/BL license
blocks that were previously missed; and b) greatly increase my
ohloh stats!
2008-04-16 22:40:48 +00:00
Erwin Coumans
ab71e2a9b5 -added basic support for GameActuator 'load game', relative paths were broken, just load file into memory and load blend from memory.
-near sensor support
- python binding for PhysicsConstraints.setNumTimeSubSteps (dividing the physics timestep to tradeoff quality for performance)
2006-05-22 21:03:43 +00:00
Kester Maddock
3dd18c5c34 Added an UpdateTransform callback from SceneGraph -> Physics.
Profiling revealed that the SceneGraph updated every physics object, whether it moved or not, even though the physics object was at the right place.  This would cause SOLID to go and update its bounding boxes, overlap tests etc.
This callback handles the special case (parented objects) where the physics scene needs to be informed of changes to the scenegraph.

Added Python attributes (mass, parent, visible, position, orientation, scaling) to the KX_GameObject module.
Make KX_GameObject use the KX_PyMath Python <-> Moto conversion.
2004-05-26 12:06:41 +00:00
Kester Maddock
c50055204d SceneGraph support for bounding boxs 2004-05-16 12:54:44 +00:00
Nathan Letwory
00291b5cf4 [GameEngine] Commit all Kester's changes made to the gameengine to restore 2.25 like physics.
[SCons] Build with Solid as default when enabling the gameengine in the build process
[SCons] Build solid and qhull from the extern directory and link statically against them

That was about it.

There are a few things that needs double checking:

* Makefiles
* Projectfiles
* All the other systems than Linux and Windows on which the build (with scons) has been successfully tested.
2004-03-22 22:02:18 +00:00
Kent Mein
209a2ede2c Last of the config.h mods...
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif

added to these files.

Kent
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mein@cs.umn.edu
2002-11-25 15:29:57 +00:00
Hans Lambermont
12315f4d0e Initial revision 2002-10-12 11:37:38 +00:00