[Bf-committers] Game Engine / Physics issues

[Mal]

Hi Kester,

With all the new, easy to use features in Blender, I'm starting to get 
back into it again so I put together a set of textured sample scenes for 
the games engine.

I've created a number of scenes, containing simple tests ( using boxes, 
spheres, polytopes ) that might be of use when updating the physics code.
( it might be of interest to all coders, to see how cool the physics 
engine 'nearly' is ).

Here's the blender file
www.candointeractive.com/blender/PhysicsTest.blend 
<cid:part1.09090808.07000502 at candomultimedia.com>

You'll notice how there is a lot of jittering when objects are stacked, 
or even when they are 'resting' on the ground ( again, look at 
http://www.candointeractive.com/gamedesign/car and check out the stack 
of boxes ahead of the car when you collect the pickup, and run into them 
to scatter and watch as they settle again ).

One of the scenes ( MaterialColorBoxes ) is of great interest to me... 
it would be great to see the colour of the boxes taken directly into the 
game engine ( assuming no textures were assigned to it ).  I have been 
asked to put together some content for students, and this is something 
I'd really like to see working, so that they could be taught 
interactivity via the game engine, on their own scenes.

Mal