Collision detection and rigid body dynamics The jit.phys.world object encapsulates a physics simulation context to perform collision detection and rigid body dynamics on its child objects. Other physics objects in the same patch as a jit.phys.world object are automatically added to the world. Multiple contexts can be managed by explicitly setting the name attribute of the jit.phys.world object and the worldname attribute of the child physics objects. Dynamics can be disabled, allowing the world to be used solely for collision detections. A 2D simulation is achieved with the remove_plane attribute. Cycling '74 Jitter messages in TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE collision list TEXT_HERE dumpout TEXT_HERE Perform a single step of the physics simulation, test and report collisions, and update all child objects. Causes the world to perform a single step of the physics simulation, test and report collisions, and update all child objects. Perform ray-testing on rigid bodies and report the colliding objects Perform ray-testing on the rigid bodies using the passed in ray endpoints, and report colliding objects out the right-hand (dumpout) outlet of the object, followed by the relative intersection position and world-space intersection. See raytest_mode for more info. Reset the simulation including dynamic and kinematic rigid bodies Reset the simulation including dynamic and kinematic rigid bodies. Perform ray-testing on rigid bodies and report the colliding objects Perform ray-testing on the rigid bodies using the passed in screen coords. The ray start point is taken by converting the screen coords to world-space, and the end point is generated by casting a ray from the camera position, through the start point to the camera far clip plane. The colliding objects name is reported out the right-hand (dumpout) outlet of the object, followed by the relative intersection position and world-space intersection. See raytest_mode for more info. Automatic mode enable Enables and disables automatic mode where update messages are received from that target jit.gl.render object (default = 1). Specifies the format of the collisions dictionary Specifies the format of the collisions dictionary (default = simple) Report contact point positions and normals average TEXT_HERE All contact point position and normals reported TEXT_HERE Collision reporting enable Enables and disables collision reporting out the second (dumpout) outlet. Assign to named drawing context. Assign to the named drawing context, allowing for updates to be received automatically. Rigid-body dynamics enable Enables and disables rigid-body dynamics. Enable simulation Enable the physics simulation for all objects in this physics context (default = 1). Fixed time step value (Hz) of physics simulation Fixed time step value (Hz) of physics simulation (default = 60). Increasing this value increases the resolution of the simulation. The force of gravity A 3D vector describes the force of gravity applied to all objects in the world (default = 0, -9.8, 0). Maximum number of internal simulation steps between updates Maximum number of internal simulation steps between updates (default = 1). Increase this number if FPS is low in order to prevent the simulation from losing time. Instance name Specifies the name of the instance (default = UID). Number of collision points Specifies the number of collision points in the world. Sets the number of collison dispatcher threads Sets the number of collison dispatcher threads (default = 1). Increasing the number of threads may improve performance, especially for physics scenes with distinct and separate groups of colliding objects. Specifies how raytest messages return object hits Specifies how raytest messages return object hits for the raytest and screenraytest messages (default = closest) Return only the object closest to the camera TEXT_HERE Return all intersecting objects TEXT_HERE Remove plane to enable 2D simulation Remove plane to enable 2D simulation (default = none). TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Constrain simulation to Y and Z planes TEXT_HERE Constrain simulation to X and Z planes TEXT_HERE Constrain simulation to X and Y planes TEXT_HERE Split impulse enable Enables and disables split impulse dynamics (default = 1). When enabled, split impulse will allow the dynamics solver to apply positional corrections when deep collision penetrations occur. jit.gl.render object name Specifies the name of a jit.gl.render object to receive update messages from. World bounds enable Enables and disables the world bounds. (default = 1) Change size and shape of world bounds Changes the size and shape of the world bounds (default = 5, 5, 5). The physics engine maintains an internal timer for simulation steps that decouples the physics step frequency from the rendering frame rate. The fixedtimestep attribute controls the physics engine frequency, and the maxsubsteps attribute clamps the number of steps allowed between updates. The default frequency of 60 and maxsubsteps of 1 requires a FPS of 60. If the FPS is 30, maxsubsteps should be increased (allowing for more than 1 simulation step each update). If the simulation is behaving incorrectly (rigid body penetration, erratic movement, etc), try increasing the simulation frequency and sub-steps.