[Opensim-dev] A couple more ODE changes to help stability..

[Sean Dague]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 01:07:16PM -0800, dan miller wrote:
> > > 1.   Lets put the FPS, back at 250fps for now.  I'll re-tweak the avatar
> 
> > +1.  I assume this will be done at the physics manager level so all
> > engines see it the same.
> 
> No this has to be engine-specific.  Each engine will have its own preferred
> internal stepsize.  What Teravus really means is stepsize = 0.004 rather
> than 0.01
> 
> > > I'll update my patch to include 1,2,3. ..   however for 4..     we'll
> > have
> > > to make a routine which upscales the array and averages the four
> > > closest.
> > 
> > Someone said they had a routine that nearly did that.  Can't remember
> > who.
> 
> I am not convinced this will help much, and it could impact performance. 
> Maybe worth a try, but the terrain problems go deeper than just smoothing
> out the terrain by upsampling.
> 
> I think we can fix the bouncing problems by tweaking avatar movement code
> and contact parameters.  So far I haven't seen an issue with the avatar not
> at the correct height wrt the visual terrain.

Pan the camera down, as you can be floating ~ 1m above ground and not
see it in the default view.  Steep terrain definitely causes some
funniness at the moment.

    -Sean

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