The original version was written by Stephen Thompson.
I replaced Eigen math by Bullet LinearMath, and added a dedicated 6x6 matrix solver.
Also I integrated support for collisions/contact constraints between btMultiBody and btRigidBody, and de-activation support.
See Demos/FeatherstoneMultiBodyDemo/Win32FeatherstoneMultiBodyDemo.cpp for example usage.
There is currently only support for contact constraints for btMultiBody.
Next on the list will be adding support for joint limit constraint for btMultiBody.
The implementation is still experimental/untested, the quality will improve in upcoming Bullet releases.
So files created by the new double precision serialization of Bullet 2.82 cannot be read by old Bullet versions,
but double precision serialized file generated by older Bullet versions can be read by Bullet 2.82 or newer.
changes are backwards compatible (btBulletWorldImporter can load old .bullet files)
but not forwards compatible (constraints in new .bullet files are ignored/unrecognized by old Bullet SDK)
This commit is for Issue 734. Some more work needs to be done for btGImpactMeshShapeDoubleData and thus btStridingMeshInterfaceDoubleData and btMeshPartDoubleData
fix vehicle demo (heightfield is broken, when using very large scaling factor)
add btConeShape serialization, see Issue 725
add btGearConstraint get/set, see Issue 685 and Issue 671
Add speculative contact restitution, but disabled by default, not well tested (btDiscreteDynamicsWorld::setApplySpeculativeContactRestitution)
Add --with-double-precision option to premake build system
add compound shape support to BulletXmlWorldImporter and fix some compile issue under Debian (hopefully)
object picking change in the demos: create a ball-socket picking constraint when holding shift while mouse dragging, otherwise a fixed (6dof) constraint
add assert in constraint solver, when both objects have their inertia tensor rows set to zero
btPolyhedralContactClipping: add edge-edge contact point in findSeparatingAxis (similar to the default GJK case)
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV7sBAsKu4M and Bullet/Demos/RollingFrictionDemo
Fixes in FractureDemo (mouse picking constraint needs to be removed, otherwise constraint solver crashes/asserts)
Note that it can easily introduce instability at regular (60Hertz) simulation steps so it is generally best to not use the option.
If needed, use a very small internal step, such as 1000 Hertz (world->stepSimulation(dt,100,1./1000.f); or stepSimulation(1./1000.,0);
(make sure to merge islands based on those predictive contacts too, added some check in the solver)
This fixes Issue 356.
Use same solver settings for AllBulletDemos
Make sure to embed the setCcdSweptSphereRadius inside the actual collision shape (for shoot box)
This should improve 'ccd' handling when using world->getDispatchInfo().m_useContinuous = true;body->setCcdSquareMotionThreshold(...); body->setCcdSquareMotionThreshold(...)
shoot smaller boxes (test)
use yellow instead of orange for contact point normals
tweak default erp and erp2 values, now split impulse is on by default (need to check it)
Applied picking cloth patch. Fixes Issue 646. Thanks to Dongsoo.
Applied patch Softbody updateConstraints. Fixes Issue 503. Thanks to Dave Bruce Phillips and Dongsoo.
Fix various warnigns under Mac OSX.
warmstarting for contact points was broken, fix in btPersistentManifold
enable split impulse by default (at the cost of some performance)
add the option for zero-length friction (instead of recomputing friction directions using btPlaneSpace), use the solver mode flag SOLVER_ALLOW_ZERO_LENGTH_FRICTION_DIRECTIONS
precompute lateral friction directions (in btManifoldResult)
remove the mConstraintRow[3] from btManifoldPoint, it just took a lot of memory with no benefits: fixed it in btParallelConstraintSolver
Skip btGeneric6DofSpringConstraintData parts of the data that will be invalid in .bullet files version 280 or older
This fixes Issue 618, thanks to cyrfer for the report.
minor improvements in premake build (name library output so multiple Visual Studio installations don't conflict)
remove msvc folder
