[sldev] [ATTN-LL] Physics engine status update?

[Harold Brown]

This was from Meta Lindens office hours on Friday of last week (Sept 14)

Meta Linden: In fact het-grid *is* helping- already. We are rolling the new
physics engine onto some sims on the main grid *today*.


I can't confirm this as Meta no longer posts logs of his office hours, and
the blog I did pull it from isn't on the top of my "Contains factual
information" list

On 9/19/07, Tao Takashi <tao.takashi at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>
> 2007/9/19, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com>:
> >
> > It's now been about nine months since Andrew Linden or anyone else has
> > said anything official about the physics engine upgrade project.
> > Joints disappeared, and that was the end of it. I keep hearing rumors
> > that LL has Havok 4 implemented on a closed beta grid, but there is
> > nothing to back that up anywhere.
>
>
>
> There is a blog post about it:
>
> http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/24/linden-labs-effort-to-improve-grid-stability/
>
>
> (somewhere hidden in the middle) where Ian says:
>
> "We've been talking about upgrading the Havok<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havok_%28software%29>physics engine included in the sim software for years, and haven't managed
> to deliver. However, this project is making real progress now and will be
> ready for a beta test soon." (there is more detail in the post)
>
> "Soon" is of course relative but let's hope it's not months :-)
>
>
>
> Is there any continuing work to resolve the severe sim-crashing bugs
> > in the old Havok-I engine?
>
>
> The hope is apparently that there are fewer sim crashes with Havok 4
> caused by Physics.
>
>
>
> I don't know if its worth reporting these physics crashes to the JIRA
> > since they seem almost totally random, and the sim gives me no
> > debugging messages when it crashes. It just dies and the connection
> > immediately drops -- which you may happen to experience for yourself,
> > if you try the 5-ball setting with Paddle-Whack..
>
>
>
> Probably it is because if you give time and date they might at least have
> a look at logfiles and whatnot.
>
> -- Tao
>
>
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