Turns out, it was an artifact of us suspending the simulation during links
and partly because of Cyan's late adding of the avatar controller to the
sim. Now, we add the avatar as soon as the age data is loaded. This causes
the camera stack to be populated with whatever garbage PhysX decides on,
then xJourneyClothsGen2 is free to set the real stack after we get all the
SDL from the server.
Verified to fix Teledahn oddness and not display a regression in Kemo.
Yeah, looks like PhysX 2.6.4 has a bug with spawning stuff inside of
regions. So, let's bring back the hack that spawns the avatar at -2000
feet. The link-in process will set the correct position on the controller
and fire the appropriate detectors.
Following a suggestion from @branan, I've added a comment that points out
that the controller makes a different sized kinematic actor if the
armature is human (male or female)
This is the beginning of efforts to reduce the scope of Windows.h. I have
shuttled it into hsWindows.h (again) and fixed the compilation of the
major apps. There is still some scope work that needs to be done, and the
Max plugin has not yet been addressed.
plMovementStrategy classes have been reworked and completely replace all plAvatarControllers.
While based on the old implementation, plPhysicalControllerCore has essentially been rewritten.
Remnants of long gone physical "actions" have been removed.
4 files removed -
plAVCallbackAction.h & plAVCallbackAction.cpp
plAntiGravAction.h & plAntiGravAction.cpp
This revision will not compile, requires new plPXPhysicalControllerCore implementation.
Changing the next behavior to running on every goal update causes the quabs
to skitter about one inch every five seconds. Obviously, we do not need to
start running if we are already running, so let's check that.
Manual state management in python was kind of fiddly, so let's track all
avatar clones in the NetApp and unload them as needed. This also seems to
fix a potential bug in plNPCSpawnMod (is that even used?).
Sending dupe input state messages every 10 seconds is wasteful. They are
already sent when the fields dirty, so there's no sense in sending them
any more than that. For keeping the connection alive, we'll use
lightweight pings.
NOTE: If you are using a version of PhysX prior to 2.6.4, then you should
test very carefully if you should keep this commit. This change fixed a
bug that caused avatars to get stuck falling against certain colliders. It
seems to no longer be needed.
Looks like the Cyan modellers didn't extend the stair ramps all the way
down in some places. To compensate, we can now take higher steps but can't
walk on slopes quite as steep as before. I think this should balance out
nicely.
Florian Meißner
Darryl Pogue
Skoader
Christian Walther