BEPUphysics

Thanks for the reply! Clearing contacts worked great. I already have thickness assigned to my terrain. Can you make it really large? I have it around 2 meters right now. I'm back full time developing this project after a short break trying to port it to DirectX with C++. While I am more comfortable ...

Thank you! Raising terrain level seems to work absolutely flawlessly as long as the terrain raise speed is not very high. In some limited testing it seemed to work very well with a bunch of object on on top of the other, both active and inactive entities. But lowering the terrain does not always wor...

Hi! I am trying to make entities react to semi-static physics entities change. This is almost always terrain, but sometimes some other static can disappear or move. This is a quite difficult task, so I decided to start fresh and easy, using raycast to determine the terrain intersection, updating the...

Finally solved the issues! It was my fault. Had to fix bugs all over the engine! Thank you very much for you support! Using StaticGroup reduced physics time considerably and currently there is no longer a reason to implement that complicated add/remove objects from space scheme. BEPUphysics is an ab...

Thanks for the info! A lot to consider and design! And as a parallel low priority task I started looking over SharpDX. And researching differences to SlimDX. I made a test and for 17000 objects, using StaticGroup and grouping those items in a 16x16 grid, where each grid has one StaticGroup. The only...

OK, I can understand that. What is the main fork moving to? I know that XNA is dead and I am even tempted to move away from C# to straight DirectX with C++, but I am kind of attached to BEPU and the way physics behaves here. Another question: how can you handle tens of thousands of physics enabled o...

I am currently having problems with my game eating up both too much RAM in general and sometimes more than available. I am tracking down these issues which are probably mostly my fault, but I also detected that InstancedModelDrawer eats up tons of RAM. Loading just the physics for a 2048 heightmap (...

I tried number 3, but I'm not sure how to build the collision pair. I used a cast, but NarrowPhaseHelper.Intersecting gives me a null pointer exception. The StaticMesh is not added to the space. StaticMesh mod = new StaticMesh(game.meshes[I].physVer[0], game.meshes[I].physInd[0], t); List<BroadPhase...

I am using raycasting to place objects into the world. Besides a few checks based on the ray, I would like to do full collision detection to make sure that the resulting StaticMesh does not collide with any existing objects. BEPU obviously has this collision information somewhere, so I was wondering...

Be sure to call the drawer's Update method too. Thank you! Calling Update did the trick! One more question: how come the renderer manages to draw the collision meshes without Z-fighting? Whenever I put two very similar shaped objects in the same place, I get Z fighting if they have different textur...

The ModelDrawer- or more specifically, its subclass the InstancedModelDrawer- will do it. Watch out, though; it's designed for Reach and will have trouble drawing Terrains beyond a certain primitive count. I was not able to use InstancedModelDrawer. I have no problems with my models matching the co...

Wow, I rewrote parts of the core of the terrain engine to generate smaller heightmap chunks in a format the BEPU expects instead of one big heightmap and now the creation of terrain collision information only takes up time, no longer eating memory. That is some very impressive implementation of terr...

Well the transition over to Terrain from StaticMesh is still problematic for me. Terrain only takes a array of heights and an AffineTransform as parameters. My terrain data is chunked, with each chunk containing absolute coordinates, so you don't need to use a world transform to get it into the righ...

I started using CharacterController from the demo in order to have physics based movement in the game. The first thing I did is replace my camera with the one from the demo. This was problematic and took some time and even now is not working quite properly. Raytracing from camera position/direction ...

Wow, even an ApplyScale of 5 makes collision of small objects very unstable and adds a lot of tunneling. Did not notice it before because I was testing only medium objects. Placing a barrel or table on a floor is fine, placing a fork on the table is not. Removing the ApplyScale call. Things are stab...