PxSceneFlag Struct Reference

flags for configuring properties of the scene More...

#include <PxSceneDesc.h>

Public Types

enum  Enum {
  eENABLE_ACTIVE_ACTORS = (1<<0), eENABLE_CCD = (1<<1), eDISABLE_CCD_RESWEEP = (1<<2), eADAPTIVE_FORCE = (1<<3),
  eENABLE_PCM = (1 << 6), eDISABLE_CONTACT_REPORT_BUFFER_RESIZE = (1 << 7), eDISABLE_CONTACT_CACHE = (1 << 8), eREQUIRE_RW_LOCK = (1 << 9),
  eENABLE_STABILIZATION = (1 << 10), eENABLE_AVERAGE_POINT = (1 << 11), eEXCLUDE_KINEMATICS_FROM_ACTIVE_ACTORS = (1 << 12), eENABLE_GPU_DYNAMICS = (1 << 13),
  eENABLE_ENHANCED_DETERMINISM = (1<<14), eENABLE_FRICTION_EVERY_ITERATION = (1 << 15), eMUTABLE_FLAGS = eENABLE_ACTIVE_ACTORS|eEXCLUDE_KINEMATICS_FROM_ACTIVE_ACTORS
}
 

Detailed Description

flags for configuring properties of the scene

See also
PxScene

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◆ Enum

Enumerator
eENABLE_ACTIVE_ACTORS 

Enable Active Actors Notification.

This flag enables the Active Actor Notification feature for a scene. This feature defaults to disabled. When disabled, the function PxScene::getActiveActors() will always return a NULL list.

Note
There may be a performance penalty for enabling the Active Actor Notification, hence this flag should only be enabled if the application intends to use the feature.

Default: False

eENABLE_CCD 

Enables a second broad phase check after integration that makes it possible to prevent objects from tunneling through eachother.

PxPairFlag::eDETECT_CCD_CONTACT requires this flag to be specified.

Note
For this feature to be effective for bodies that can move at a significant velocity, the user should raise the flag PxRigidBodyFlag::eENABLE_CCD for them.
This flag is not mutable, and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.

Default: False

See also
PxRigidBodyFlag::eENABLE_CCD, PxPairFlag::eDETECT_CCD_CONTACT, eDISABLE_CCD_RESWEEP
eDISABLE_CCD_RESWEEP 

Enables a simplified swept integration strategy, which sacrifices some accuracy for improved performance.

This simplified swept integration approach makes certain assumptions about the motion of objects that are not made when using a full swept integration. These assumptions usually hold but there are cases where they could result in incorrect behavior between a set of fast-moving rigid bodies. A key issue is that fast-moving dynamic objects may tunnel through each-other after a rebound. This will not happen if this mode is disabled. However, this approach will be potentially faster than a full swept integration because it will perform significantly fewer sweeps in non-trivial scenes involving many fast-moving objects. This approach should successfully resist objects passing through the static environment.

PxPairFlag::eDETECT_CCD_CONTACT requires this flag to be specified.

Note
This scene flag requires eENABLE_CCD to be enabled as well. If it is not, this scene flag will do nothing.
For this feature to be effective for bodies that can move at a significant velocity, the user should raise the flag PxRigidBodyFlag::eENABLE_CCD for them.
This flag is not mutable, and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.

Default: False

See also
PxRigidBodyFlag::eENABLE_CCD, PxPairFlag::eDETECT_CCD_CONTACT, eENABLE_CCD
eADAPTIVE_FORCE 

Enable adaptive forces to accelerate convergence of the solver.

Note
This flag is not mutable, and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.

Default: false

eENABLE_PCM 

Enable GJK-based distance collision detection system.

Note
This flag is not mutable, and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.

Default: true

eDISABLE_CONTACT_REPORT_BUFFER_RESIZE 

Disable contact report buffer resize. Once the contact buffer is full, the rest of the contact reports will not be buffered and sent.

Note
This flag is not mutable, and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.

Default: false

eDISABLE_CONTACT_CACHE 

Disable contact cache.

Contact caches are used internally to provide faster contact generation. You can disable all contact caches if memory usage for this feature becomes too high.

Note
This flag is not mutable, and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.

Default: false

eREQUIRE_RW_LOCK 

Require scene-level locking.

When set to true this requires that threads accessing the PxScene use the multi-threaded lock methods.

Note
This flag is not mutable, and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.
See also
PxScene::lockRead
PxScene::unlockRead
PxScene::lockWrite
PxScene::unlockWrite

Default: false

eENABLE_STABILIZATION 

Enables additional stabilization pass in solver.

When set to true, this enables additional stabilization processing to improve that stability of complex interactions between large numbers of bodies.

Note that this flag is not mutable and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation. Also, this is an experimental feature which does result in some loss of momentum.

eENABLE_AVERAGE_POINT 

Enables average points in contact manifolds.

When set to true, this enables additional contacts to be generated per manifold to represent the average point in a manifold. This can stabilize stacking when only a small number of solver iterations is used.

Note that this flag is not mutable and must be set in PxSceneDesc at scene creation.

eEXCLUDE_KINEMATICS_FROM_ACTIVE_ACTORS 

Do not report kinematics in list of active actors.

Since the target pose for kinematics is set by the user, an application can track the activity state directly and use this flag to avoid that kinematics get added to the list of active actors.

Note
This flag has only an effect in combination with eENABLE_ACTIVE_ACTORS.
See also
eENABLE_ACTIVE_ACTORS

Default: false

eENABLE_GPU_DYNAMICS 
eENABLE_ENHANCED_DETERMINISM 

Provides improved determinism at the expense of performance.

By default, PhysX provides limited determinism guarantees. Specifically, PhysX guarantees that the exact scene (same actors created in the same order) and simulated using the same time-stepping scheme should provide the exact same behaviour.

However, if additional actors are added to the simulation, this can affect the behaviour of the existing actors in the simulation, even if the set of new actors do not interact with the existing actors.

This flag provides an additional level of determinism that guarantees that the simulation will not change if additional actors are added to the simulation, provided those actors do not interfere with the existing actors in the scene. Determinism is only guaranteed if the actors are inserted in a consistent order each run in a newly-created scene and simulated using a consistent time-stepping scheme.

Note that this flag is not mutable and must be set at scene creation.

Note that enabling this flag can have a negative impact on performance.

Note that this feature is not currently supported on GPU.

Default false

eENABLE_FRICTION_EVERY_ITERATION 

Controls processing friction in all solver iterations.

By default, PhysX processes friction only in the final 3 position iterations, and all velocity iterations. This flag enables friction processing in all position and velocity iterations.

The default behaviour provides a good trade-off between performance and stability and is aimed primarily at game development.

When simulating more complex frictional behaviour, such as grasping of complex geometries with a robotic manipulator, better results can be achieved by enabling friction in all solver iterations.

Note
This flag only has effect with the default solver. The TGS solver always performs friction per-iteration.
eMUTABLE_FLAGS 

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