Hi, on EE 2.0 I get severe twitchy physics when ever the frame rate drops bellow 60fps..

This happens with SimpleVehicle class, when the game is running at 25fps:




But the same is happening with PhysX Vehicle and Chr classes!

I checked the Tutorials // 11 - Physics // 12 - Vehicle, same thing there, so it's not my convex body or vehicle setup acting weird.

I didn't notice any of this when using 1.0...?

Hello,

Yes I'm aware of the jittering with simple vehicle when in low fps, I've discovered that recently and I'm working on a fix for next release

Well, then you have my thanks in advance!

Hello,

SimpleVehicle codes got improved and it should be ok in next release.

But you've also mentioned similar issue happens with Chr and Vehicle classes.

I'm testing Chr (Controller) and Vehicle classes now, but they seem to be working the same in 60fps and 24fps and 2000fps. Can you provide sample project reproducing the problem?

Vehicle class on low fps:



The car and wheel shaking is a bit hard to see at small size, but it's there..
Also, PhysX doesn't like a big difference in mass :( (using default mass and density values for both car and prop)


Chr controller sliding - From tutorial 14 - Camera modes:



I think this might not be the same issue here, as it happens to me regardless of frame rate, though it is amplified by a low fps rate. It think it's affected by really low angle slopes (near zero)

in summary:
- 100% flat terrain: no movement
- almost flat terrain: sliding
- low, medium, big slopes: no movement or sliding as expected


-edit:
Looks like EE is using QueryPerformanceCounter for timing, correct? Maybe one of these issues could be hardware/power management related, as I'm running this on my old laptop(more like craptop). I'll try running the same build on a proper desktop PC when I get the chance.

SimpleVehicle will have even better stability in next release.

Controller sliding on almost flat terrain will be removed in next release just fixed it.

As for the Vehicle class please try this after physics creation : Physics.timestep(PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE);
If that still won't work please provide sample project to reproduce the issue (perfectly 2.0 project) so I could test it (because my tests with PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE did not have jittering issues).

Thank you!

@Esenthel, looking forward to next release, i'm really liking this simple vehicle class great job! I still have the jitter on low fps 24 to 26, i'm running it on my nexus 10, i get 60 fps when i disable bloom, clouds don't look as nice though I Tried "Physics.timestep(PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE);", it seemed to help at first,
but when i started driving it was bouncing all over.

So, no jitter at 60 fps, but still for me a lot of jitter at 24 fps... thank's!

(04-23-2013 12:32 AM)ZeroByte Wrote:  @Esenthel, looking forward to next release, i'm really liking this simple vehicle class great job! I still have the jitter on low fps 24 to 26, i'm running it on my nexus 10, i get 60 fps when i disable bloom, clouds don't look as nice though I Tried "Physics.timestep(PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE);", it seemed to help at first,
but when i started driving it was bouncing all over.

So, no jitter at 60 fps, but still for me a lot of jitter at 24 fps... thank's!

Same here on build v24, I Tried "Physics.timestep(PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE);" too but it's unusable under 20fps - bounces/shakes crazily.


Can you recommend anything else for lower 15-20fps?
Cheers

EDIT: Not using server just added a 32x32 level to the tutorial.
I guess improving frame rate is a solution

In addition to Physics.timestep(PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE)
you can try either Physics.precision(1) or Physics.precision(1000)

(06-03-2013 12:07 PM)Esenthel Wrote:  In addition to Physics.timestep(PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE)
you can try either Physics.precision(1) or Physics.precision(1000)

Hi, i'm experiencing the same issue here... of course that PHYS_TIMESTEP_VARIABLE timestep helps a lot, as said by others, but under 30fps the problem is still there.

Unfortunately, also using Physics.precision(1) or Physics.precision(1000) is basically the same issue with no difference at all :(

Any idea to improve the actual behavior? I'm using the Vehicle class.

Thanks!

Hi,

I think that PhysX Vehicle class uses some internally managed timesteps.

Hmm, Ok! So in that case, without controlling that timesteps, improving the framerate it's the solution... it can be tricky for mobiles, since 25-30fps is very good on mobiles... but with the vehicle not :(

Thanks!

I'm now using a quick workaround for the jitter at low fps... basically, i'm setting suspension damping to a smaller value:


If this does not affect too much the needed configuration for the car, this is a quick and dirty workaround that we can use... not perfect (since we may want to use higher damping values for the suspension), but at least the jitter disappear

Hi, now that i own source license i've been investigating an making some tests with PhysX vehicle.

I've just found the internally timesteps that @Esenthel refers some post ago, can be set through wheels sim data - PxVehicleWheelsSimData::setSubStepCount.

In this case, we can set them using (for example):

Please refer to:

http://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content...3b5b37053b


This is one of the recommendations from NVidia, forjittery vehicle problems... please check out here - http://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content...icles.html (search by Jittery Vehicles)

My tests by using PxVehicleWheelsSimData::setSubStepCount, did elimitated jitter

@Esenthel, it will be possible for you to allow the set of PxVehicleWheelsSimData in Esenthel side... or at least the PxVehicleWheelsSimData::setSubStepCount... so devs can override the default values.

Thanks!

Hi,

That's no problem, you can expect this in the next release.