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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.
- Remove strict flags from files, which are using FFmpeg stuff
We're still using some symbols which are marked as deprecated.
Ideally, we shall switch to new API, but it's a bit larger challenge
because we don't want to break compatibility withotu actual need.
- Replace MAKE_ID with BT_MAKE_ID in bullet library.
This is needed to prevent re-definition of MAKE_ID in bullet library.
Seems it's only used to read blender files, so should be quite safe
change.
Change OURPLATFORM from "linux<major_version>" to simple "linux".
Since new policy for linux kernel versions that major version in
platform doesn't make much sense for building rules so the same
rules could be used for both of linux2 and linux3 now/
Tested on both of linux2 and linux3 systems.
blender_add_lib now takes a separate include argument to suppress warnings in system includes (mostly ffmpeg & python).
also only build wm_apple.c on apple+carbon configuration.
add PhysicsConstraints.exportBulletFile(char* fileName) python command
I'll be checking the bf-committers mailing list, in case this commit broke stuff
scons needs to be updated, I'll do that in a second.
globbing vs explicit is discussed here.
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-December/025694.html
Practical implications are:
- developers need to keep CMakeLists.txt files up to date.
- Users wont get strange linking errors if they build after a file is added, since CMake detects CMakeLists.txt is modified and automatically reconfigure.
Updated Blender's Bullet to 2.76 in this branch only.
This update was done by:
1) deleting the contents of the existing extern/bullet2/src directory (leaving the .svn folder in place),
2) copy/pasting the contents of the bullet/src directory (from unzipped Bullet archive) into this newly cleared folder.
Hopefully there aren't any patches that are still needed from the Bullet we had in source.
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Note: I didn't use Moguri's patch, since that was giving me compile errors with headers not being able to be found.
[[Split portion of a mixed commit.]]
The cause of this is in the bullet library, seems like some kind
of poor handling of many repeated allocations by Mac OS X, but the
allocation is unnecessary, so removed it.
Patch submitted to bullet:
http://code.google.com/p/bullet/issues/detail?id=303
* bring back 'player' libtype, after investigation with ideasman.
scons/mingw works nicely, for some reason msvc fails to link still, will look further into it.
* ensure all SConscripts are ready for win64-vc (where necessary).
* ensure we have proper _DEBUG flag for Python when we're doing a debug build.
* some cleaning up of linking etc.
* ensure /EHsc is there for game engine modules.
