- Add compound shape export to BulletColladaConverter
Thanks to JamesH for the report: http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2840
- Fix compiler build for Visual Studio 6
Thanks to JoF for the report: http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2841
2008 November 11
- Add CProfileManager::dumpAll() to dump performance statistics to console using printf.
- Add support for interaction between btSoftBody and btCollisionObject/btGhostObject
2008 November 8
- Fix PosixThreadSupport
- Add improved btHeightfieldTerrainShape support and new Demos/TerrainDemo
Thanks to tomva, http://code.google.com/p/bullet/issues/detail?id=63&can=1
- Moved kinematic character controller from Demos/CharacterDemo into src/BulletDynamics/Character/btKinematicCharacterController.cpp
2008 November 6
- reduced default memory pool allocation from 40Mb to 3Mb. This should be more suitable for all platforms, including iPhone
- improved CUDA broadphase
- IBM Cell SDK 3.x support, fix ibmsdk Makefiles
- improved CMake support with 'install' and 'framework option
2008 November 4
- add btAxisSweep::resetPool to avoid non-determinism due to shuffled linked list
Thanks to Ole for the contribution,
2008 October 30
- disabled btTriangleMesh duplicate search by default, it is extremely slow
- added Extras/IFF binary chunk serialization library as preparation for in-game native platform serialization (planned COLLADA DOM -> IFF converter)
2008 October 20
- added SCE Physics Effects box-box collision detection for SPU/BulletMultiThreaded version
See Bullet/src/BulletMultiThreaded/SpuNarrowPhaseCollisionTask/boxBoxDistance.cpp
Thanks to Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, SCEI for the contribution
2008 October 17
- Added btGhostObject support, this helps character controller, explosions, triggers and other local spatial queries
2008 October 10
- Moved aabb to btBroadphaseProxy, improves rayTest dramatically. Further raytest improvements using the broadphase acceleration structures are planned
- Moved BulletMultiThreaded from Extras to /src/BulletMultiThreaded for better integration
2008 October 3
- Add support for autoconf automake
./autogen.sh and ./configure will create both Makefile and Jamfile. CMake and autogenerated Visual Studio projectfiles remain supported too.
- Improved ColladaConverter: plane shape export, and callback for shape construction to allow deletion of memory
2008 Sept 30
- Improved Soft Body support, fixed issues related to soft body colliding against concave triangle meshes
- Shared more code between regular version and SPU/BulletMultiThreaded, in particular GJK/EPA
2008 Sept 28
- Fixed rotation issues in Dynamic Maya Plugin
2008 Sept 11
- Enable CCD motion clamping for btDiscreteDynamicsWorld, to avoid tunneling. A more advanced solution will be implemented in btContinuousDynamicsWorld.
2008 Sept 7
- Add btScaledBvhTriangleMeshShape, to allow re-use of btBvhTriangleMeshShape of different sizes, without copying of the BVH data.
2008 Sept 5
- Enabled Demos/ForkLiftDemo
Thanks Roman Ponomarev.
2008 Sept 4
- Added btCudaBroadphase in Extras/CUDA: some research into accelerating Bullet using CUDA.
Thanks to the particle demo from the NVidia CUDA SDK.
2008 Sept 3
- Several bug fixes and contributions related to inertia tensor, memory leaks etc.
Thanks to Ole K.
2008 Sept 1
- Updated CDTestFramework, with latest version of OPCODE Array SAP. See Extras/CDTestFramework
Thanks to Pierre Terdiman for the update
2008 August 25
- Walt Disney Studios contributes their in-house Maya Plugin for simulating Bullet physics, with options for other engines such as PhysBam or PhysX.
Thanks to Nicola Candussi and Arthur Shek
2008 August 14
- Improved performance for btDbvtBroadphase, based on dual dynamic AABB trees (one for static, one for dynamic objects, where objects can move from one to the other tree)
Thanks to Nathanael Presson again, for all his work.
2008 July 31
- Added Havok .hkx to COLLADA Physics .dae converter patch+information
- Fix btSubsimplexConvexCast
Thanks to Nacho, http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2422)
- Fix in rendering, GL_STENCIL
- btTriangleIndexVertexArray indices should be unsigned int/unsigned short int,
- Made InternalProcessAllTriangles virtual, thanks to
Both thank to Fullmetalcoder, http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2401
- clamp impulse for btPoint2PointConstraint
Thanks to Martijn Reuvers, http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2418
- Free memory of bvh, pass in scaling factor (optional)
Thanks to Roy Eltham, http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2375
2008 July 27
btDbvtBroadphase:
- Fixed a performance issues reported by 'reltham'
- Added btDbvtBroadphase::optimize() for people who want good performances right
away or don't do dynamics.
- fixed compilation issues when DBVT_BP_PROFILE was set.
btSoftBody:
- Fixed singular matrix issues related to polar decomposition (flat meshes).
DemoApplication:
- Shadows (enable/disable through 'g' or DemoApplication::setShadows(bool)).
- Texture can be enable/disable through 'u'
CDFramework:
- fixed compilation issues.
All thanks to Nathanael Presson
2008 July 10
- Added btMultimaterialTriangleMeshShape and MultiMaterialDemo
Thanks to Alex Silverman for the contribution
2008 June 30
- Added initial support for kinematic character controller
Thanks to John McCutchan
2008 April 14
- Added ray cast support for Soft Bodies
Thanks to Nathanael Presson for the contribution
2008 April 9
- Cleanup of Stan Melax ConvexHull, removed Extras/ConvexHull, moved sources into LinearMath/BulletCollision
2008 April 4
- Added btSliderConstraint and demo
Thanks Roman Ponomarev
2008 April 3
- Fixed btMinkowskiSumShape, and added hitpoint to btSubsimplexConvexCast
2008 April 2
- Added Extras/CdTestFrameWork
Thanks Pierre Terdiman
2008 April 1
- Added posix thread (pthread) support
Thanks Enrico
2008 March 30
- Added Soft Body, cloth, rope and deformable volumes, including demos and interaction
Thanks Nathanael Presson for this great contribution
2008 March 17
- Improved BulletColladaConverter
Thanks John McCutchan
2008 March 15
- btMultiSapBroadphase in a working state. Needs more optimizations to be fully useable.
- Allow btOptimizedBvh to be used for arbitrary objects, not just triangles
- added quicksort to btAlignedObjectArray
- removed btTypedUserInfo, added btHashMap
2008 March 30
- Moved quickstep solver and boxbox into Bullet/src folder
Thanks Russell L. Smith for permission to redistribute Open Dynamics Engine quickstep and box-box under the ZLib license
2008 Feb 27
- Added initial version for Character Control Demo
- Applied fixes to IBM Cell SDK 3.0 build makefiles
Thanks Jochen and mojo for reporting/providing patch: http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1922
2008 Feb 8
- Bugfixes in ConvexCast support against the world.
Thanks to Isgmasa for reporting/providing fix: http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1823
2008 Feb 6
- Added btCapsuleShapeX and btCapsuleShapeZ for capsules around X and Z axis (default capsule is around Y)
2008 Feb 3
- Added btTypedUserInfo, useful for serialization
2008 Jan 31
- Add support for 16 and 32-bit indices for SPU / BulletMultiThreaded version.
2008 Jan 29
- Added COLLADA Physics export/serialization/snapshot from any Bullet btDynamicsWorld. Saving the physics world into a text .xml file is useful for debugging etc.
2008 Jan 23
- Added Stan Melax Convex Hull utility library in Extras/ConvexHull. This is useful to render non-polyhedral convex objects, and to simplify convex polyhedra.
2008 Jan 14
- Add support for batch raycasting on SPU / BulletMultiThreaded
2007 Dec 16
- Added btRigidBodyConstructionInfo, to make it easier to set individual setting (and leave other untouched) during rigid body construction.
Thanks Vangelis Kokkevis for pointing this out.
- Fixed memoryleak in the ConstraintDemo and Raytracer demo.
- Fixed issue with clearing forces/gravity at the end of the stepSimulation, instead of during internalSingleStepSimulation.
Thanks chunky for pointing this out: http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1780
- Disabled additional damping in rigid body by default, but enable it in most demos. Set btRigidBodyConstructionInfo m_additionalDamping to true to enable this.
- Removed obsolete QUICKPROF BEGIN/END_PROFILE, and enabled BT_PROFILE. Profiling is enabled by default (see Bullet/Demos/OpenGL/DemoApplication.cpp how to use this).
User can switch off profiling by enabling define BT_NO_PROFILE in Bullet/src/btQuickprof.h.
2007 Dec 14
- Added Hello World and BulletMultiThreaded demos
- Add portable version of BulletMultiThreaded, through SequentialThreadSupport (non-parallel but sharing the same code-path)
- Add Cmake support for AllBulletDemos
2007 Dec 11
- Moved the 'btRigidBody::clearForce' to the end of the stepSimulation, instead of in each substep.
See discussion http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1601
- Added btConvexPlaneCollisionAlgorithm, makes planes perform better, and prevents tunneling
Thanks Andy O'Neil for reporting the performance/functionality issue
- Fixes for IBM Cell SDK 3.0
Thanks to Jochen Roth for the patch.
2007 Dec 10
- Fixes in btHeightfieldTerrainShape
Thanks to Jay Lee for the patch.
2007 Dec 9
- Only update aabb of active objects
Thanks Peter Tchernev for reporting (http://bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1764 )
- Added workaround to compile libxml under Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
- Make glui compile under MSVC 9.0 beta (vsnprintf is already defined)
2007 Dec 6
- Added DynamicControlDemo, showing dynamic control through constraint motors
Thanks to Eddy Boxerman
- Add support for generic concave shapes for convex cast.
- Added convex cast query to collision world.
- Added workaround for OpenGL bug in Mac OS X 10.5.0 (Leopard)
- Added concave raycast demo
All above thanks to John McCutchan (JMC)
- Fixed issues that prevent Linux version to compile.
Thanks to Enrico for reporting and patch, see
- Fixed misleading name 'numTriangleIndices' into 'numTriangles'
Thanks Sean Tasker for reporting:
2007 Nov 28:
- Added raycast against trianglemesh. Will be extended to object cast soon.
Thanks John McCutchan (JMC)
- make getNumPoints const correct, add const getPoints().
Thanks Dirk Gregorius
- Bugfix: allow btCollisionObjects (non-btRigidBody) to interact properly with btRigidBody for cache-friendly btSequentialImpulseConstraintSolver.
Thanks Andy O'Neil for pointing this out.
- Bugfix: don't fail if spheres have identical center, use arbitrary separating normal (1,0,0)
Thanks Sean Tasker for reporting! http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1681
2007, November 20
- Added hierarchical profiling
- Fixed memory leak in btMultiSapBroadphase,
- Fixed hash function (typo, should use 2 proxies)
Thanks to Stephen (shatcher) for reporting and fixes! http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1696
- Terminate Win32 Threads when closing the CcdPhysicsDemo (when USE_PARALLEL_SOLVER/USE_PARALLEL_DISPATCHER is defined)
2007 Nov 6
- Added support for 16-bit indices for triangle meshes
- Added support for multiple mesh parts using btBvhTriangleMeshShape.
Thanks to Tim Johansson
2007 Oct 22
- All memory allocations go through btAlignedAlloc/btAlignedFree. User can override this to verify memory leaks
- added a few more demos to AllBulletDemos
- fix for one of the constructors of btHingeConstraint
Thanks Marcus Hennix
2007 Oct 20
- included glui, a GLUT/OpenGL based toolkit for some graphical user elements
Removed dynamic_cast from glui, to allow linkage without rtti
- added Box2D framework using glui, allowing all demos to run within one executable
Thanks Erin Catto for the FrameWork skeleton (http://www.box2d.org)
2007 Ocy 17
- Allow user to pass in their own memory (stack and pool) allocators, through collisionConfiguration. See demos how to use this
2007 Oct 14
- Included working version of Cell SPU parallel optimized version for Libspe2 SPU task scheduler.
This version compiles and runs on Playstation 3 Linux and IBM CellBlade, see BulletSpuOptimized.pdf for build instructions
(Official Playstation 3 developers can request a SPURS version through Sony PS3 Devnet.)
Thanks to IBM 'Extreme Blue' project for the contribution
http://www-913.ibm.com/employment/us/extremeblue/
Thanks Minh Cuong Tran, Benjamin Hoeferlin, Frederick Roth and Martina Huellmann
for various contributions to get this initial Libspe2 parallel version up and running.
2007 Oct 13
- made 'btCollisionShape::calculateLocalInertia' const
Thanks to cgripeos, see http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1514
- applied a large patch to remove warnings
Thanks to Enrico, see http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1568
- removed SSE includes, added #incude <string.h> for memset in Extras/quickstep, thanks Eternl Knight
2007 Oct 11
- added Hashed Overlapping Pair Cache, recommended by Pierre Terdiman. It works like a charm, thanks Pierre and Erin Catto (code from Box2D)
- modified some margins inside btBoxShape, btCylinderShape and btSphereShape
- added cone debug rendering (for cones with x, y and z up-axis)
- added improvements for optional Extra/quickstep, thanks to Remotion
- some performance improvements for Bullet constraint solver
2007 Sept 28
- upgraded GIMPACT to version 0.3
Thanks to Francisco Leon
2007 Sept 27
- added contribution from IBM Extreme Blue project for Libspe2 support. This allow to execute BulletMultiThreaded on Cell SPU under PS3 Linux and Cell Blade. See http://www-913.ibm.com/employment/us/extremeblue
Thanks to Minh Cuong Tran, Frederick Roth, Martina Heullmann and Benjamin Hoeferlin.
2007 Sept 13
- Improved btGenericD6Constraint. It can be used to create ragdolls (similar to the new btConeTwistConstraint). See GenericJointDemo
- Added support for Bullet constraints in the optional Extras/quickstep ODE solver. See CcdPhysicsDemo, enable #COMPARE_WITH_QUICKSTEP and add libquickstep to the dependencies.
For both patches/improvements thanks Francisco Leon/projectileman
2007 Sept 10
- removed union from btQuadWordStorage, it caused issues under certain version of gcc/Linux
2007 Sept 10
- Reverted constraint solver, due to some issues. Need to review the recent memory allocation changes.
- Fixed issue with kinematic objects rotating at low speed: quaternion was de-normalized, passing value > 1 into acosf returns #IND00 invalid values
- 16 byte memory alignment for BVH serialization
- memory cleanup for btPoolAllocator
2007 Sept 9
- Added serialization for BVH/btBvhTriangleMeshShape, including endian swapping. See ConcaveDemo for an example.
Thanks to Phil Knight for the contribution.
- Fixed issues related to stack allocator/compound collision algorithm
- added parallel constraint solver. Works on Playstation 3 Cell SPU and multi core (Win Threads on PC and XBox 360).
See Extras/BulletMultiThreaded for SpuSolverTask subfolder and SpuParallelSolver.cpp
Thanks Marten Svanfeldt (Starbreeze Studios)
- fixed some bugs related to parallel collision detection (Extras/BulletMultiThreaded)
Thanks Marten Svanfeldt (Starbreeze Studios)
2007 Aug 2
- added compound and concave-convex (swapped) case for BulletMultiThreaded collision detection, thanks to Marten Svanfeldt
- refactored broadphase and overlapping pair cache. This allows performance improvement by combining multiple broadphases. This helps add/remove of large batches of objects and large worlds. See also Pierre Terdiman forum topic:
- added Vector Math library for SIMD 3D graphics linear algebra (vector, matrix, quaternion)
See Bullet/Extras/vectormathlibrary
Supports SIMD SSE, PowerPC PPU and Cell SPU (including PS3 Linux and CellBlade), as well as generic portable scalar version
Will be used to improve BulletMultiThreaded performance
Open Sourced by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. under the new BSD license
- added SIMD math library
4-way SIMD for common math functions like atan2f4, cosf4, floorf4, fabsf4, rsqrtf4 etc. Used by Vector Math library under PPU and SPU.
Supports PowerPC (PPU) and Cell SPU, including PS3 Linux and CellBlade.
See Bullet/Extras/simdmathlibrary
Open sourced by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. under the new BSD license
2007 July 25
- added several patches: per-rigidbody sleeping threshold. added Assert to prevent deletion of rigidbody while constraints are still pointing at it
Thanks to Marten Svanfeldt (Starbreeze Studios)
2007 July 13
- fixed relative #include paths again. We can't use "../" relative paths: some compilers choke on it (it causes extreme long paths)
Within the libraries, we always need to start with "BulletCollision/" or "BulletDynamics/ or "LinearMath/"
2007 July 10
- Updated Bullet User Manual
2007 July 5
- added btConeTwistConstraint, especially useful for ragdolls. See Demos/RagdollDemo
Thanks to Marten Svanfeldt (Starbreeze Studios)
2007 June 29
- btHeightfieldTerrainShape: Added heightfield support, with customizations
- Upgraded to GIMPACT 0.2, see Extras/GIMPACT and MovingConcaveDemo
- Several patches from Marten Svanfeldt (Starbreeze Studios)
Improved collision filtering (in broadphase and rigidbody)
Improved debug rendering
Allow to set collision filter group/mask in addRigidBody
2007 June 15
- Changed btAlignedObjectArray to call copy constructor/replacement new for duplication, rather then assignment operator (operator=).
2007 June 11
- Added multi-threading. Originally for Playstation 3 Cell SPU, but the same code can run using Win32 Threads using fake DMA transfers (memcpy)
Libspe2 support for Cell Blade / PS3 Linux is upcoming
See Extras/BulletMultiThreaded. Usage: replace btCollisionDispatcher by btSpuGatheringCollisionDispatcher
- Added managed Bullet library, entirely rewritten in C# for Windows and XBox 360 XNA
See Extras/BulletX
Thanks to KleMiX, aka Vsevolod Klementjev
2007 May 31
- sign-bit went wrong in case of 32-bit broadphase, causing quantization problems.
Thanks DevO for reporting.
2007 May 23
- Fixed quantization problem for planar triangle meshes in btOptimizedBvh
Thanks Phil Knight for reporting and helping to fix this bug.
2007 May 20
- btAxisSweep3: Fixed a bug in btAxisSweep3 (sweep and prune) related to object removal. Only showed up when at least one btStaticPlaneShape was inserted.
Thanks tbp for more details on reproducing case.
- btAxisSweep3: Fixed issue with full 32bit precision btAxisSweep3 (define BP_USE_FIXEDPOINT_INT_32), it used only 0xffff/65536 for quantization instead of full integer space (0xffffffff)
- btRaycastVehicle: Added 'getForwardVector' and getCurrentSpeedKmHour utility functions
- Fixed local scaling issues (btConvexTriangleMeshShape, btBvhTriangleMeshShape, removed scaling from btMatrix3x3).
Thanks Volker for reporting!
- Added second filename search, so that starting BspDemo and ConvexDecompositionDemo from within Visual Studio (without setting the starting path) still works
2007 April 22
- Added braking functionality to btRaycastVehicle
- Removed tons of warnings, under MSVC 2005 compilation in -W4
2007 March 21
- Fixed issues: comma at end of enum causes errors for some compilers
- Fixed initialization bug in LocalRayResult ( m_localShapeInfo(localShapeInfo) )
2007 March 20
- Added refit tree to quantized stackless tree, and updated ConcaveDemo as example.
2007 March 17
- Added constraint solver optimizations, avoiding cross products during iterations, and gather rigidbody/constraint info in contiguous memory (btSolverBody/btSolverConstraint)
- These optimizations don't give large benefit yet, but it has good potential. Turned on by default. Can be switched off using solver->setSolverMode(SOLVER_RANDMIZE_ORDER).
- Enabled anti-jitter for rigid bodies. This is experimental, and can be switched off by setting a global (it is experimental so no proper interface) gJitterVelocityDampingFactor = 1.0;
- Fixed bug in islandmanifold.heapSort(btPersistentManifoldSortPredicate()); , thanks Noehrgel for reporting this (affected Sun Solaris)
2007 March 12
- Added compile-time toggle between on 16-bit and 32-bit fixed-point SAP broadphase.
This allows the number of bodies to exceed 32767
- Enable useQuantizedAabbCompression on btTriangleMesh, see ColladaDemo
2007 March 8
- Fixed bug in constraint/island sorting (caused by replacing STL by dedicated btAlignedObjectArray with heapSort)
Thanks Clemens Unterkofler for pointing this out!
2007 March 6
- removed STL from the Bullet library: replace std::vector by btAlignedObjectArray. Also removed the std::set for overlapping pair set, and turned it into an overlapping pair array. The SAP only adds objects, never removed. Removal is postponed for during traversal of overlapping pairs (duplicates and non-overlapping pairs are removed during that traversal).
- added heap sort and binary search/linear search to btAlignedObjectArray
- Improved performance of convex collision shapes, cache local AABB instead of recomputation. This fixes issue with very slow performance in larger .bsp levels
2007 Feb 24
- Added compressed/quantized AABB tree, 16 bytes per node, while supporting 32-bit (triangle) indices.
Should be faster and smaller then original version (quantized aabb check is done in integer space)
Original aabb tree nodes are still supported. They are 44 bytes, with full floating point precision and additional subPart index.
- added meter-unit scaling support in ColladaConverter.cpp
- fixed optimized AABB tree building: in some cases the tree building fails due to unbalanced trees, which generated stack overflow
2006 Dec 15
- added contribution to allow double precision collision detection/dynamics. Define BT_USE_DOUBLE_PRECISION in your project and libraries that include Bullet
2006 Dec 14
- merged contact and non-contact constraint solving into one loop, will improve stability of jointed bodies during collisions
- added first draft for hingeConstraint motor
2006 Dec 8, Erwin Coumans
- preparation for SIMD: added btAlignedAllocator and btAlignedObjectArray, to replace stl std::vector, same interface, but compatible with 16 byte alignment
- cleaned up dependencies in autogenerated msvc projectfiles
- aligned btVector3 on 16 bytes boundary, under win32. see if developers will come up with problems
2006 Dec 04, Erwin Coumans
Added btNearCallback. This is similar to Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) dNearCallback, but important differences:
- contact points are persistent (lifetime more then one frame, for warmstarting/incremental contact point management)
- continuous collision detection, time of impact
Added btRigidBody::isInWorld(), returns true if btRigidBody is inside a btCollisionWorld/btDynamicsWorld derived class
Added angularFactor to btRigidbody, this helps some character control (no angular impulse applied)
2006 Nov 28
Moved StackAlloc from EPA into LinearMath/btStackAlloc
renamed internal class ConcaveShape into btConcaveShape
