Bullet physics debug drawing not working

Posted by Krishnabhadra on Game Development See other posts from Game Development or by Krishnabhadra
Published on 2013-07-03T10:33:00Z Indexed on 2013/07/03 11:19 UTC
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Background

I am following on from this question, which isn't answered yet. Basically I have a cube and a UVSphere in my scene, with UVSphere on the top of the cube without touching the cube. Both exported from blender.

When I run the app The UVSphere does circle around the cube for 3 or 4 times and jump out of the scene. What I actually expect was the sphere to fall on top of the cube.

What this question about

From the comment to the linked question, I got to know about bullet debug drawing, which helps in debugging by drawing outline of physics bodies which are normally invisible. I did some research on that and came up with the code given below. From whatever I have read, below code should work, but it doesn't.

My Code

My bullet initialization code.

-(void) initializeScene {
    /*Setup physics world*/
    _physicsWorld = [[CC3PhysicsWorld alloc] init];
    [_physicsWorld setGravity:0 y:-9.8 z:0];

    /*Setting up debug draw*/
    MyDebugDraw *draw   =   new MyDebugDraw;
    draw->setDebugMode(draw->getDebugMode() 
                      | btIDebugDraw::DBG_DrawWireframe );
    _physicsWorld._discreteDynamicsWorld->setDebugDrawer(draw);

    /*Setup camera and lamb*/
    …………..

    //This simpleCube.pod contains the cube
    [self addContentFromPODFile: @"simpleCube.pod"];
    //This file contains sphere
    [self addContentFromPODFile: @"SimpleSphere.pod"];

    [self createGLBuffers];

    CC3MeshNode* cubeNode   = (CC3MeshNode*)[self getNodeNamed:@"Cube"];
    CC3MeshNode* sphereNode = (CC3MeshNode*)[self getNodeNamed:@"Sphere"]; 
    // both cubeNode and sphereNode are not nil from this point


    float *cVertexData  = (float*)((CC3VertexArrayMesh*)cubeNode.mesh)
                               .vertexLocations.vertices;
    int cVertexCount    = ((CC3VertexArrayMesh*)cubeNode.mesh)
                               .vertexLocations.vertexCount;

    btTriangleMesh* cTriangleMesh  = new btTriangleMesh();

    int offset = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < (cVertexCount / 3); i++)
    {
        unsigned int index1 = offset;
        unsigned int index2 = offset+6;
        unsigned int index3 = offset+12;
        cTriangleMesh->addTriangle(
          btVector3(cVertexData[index1], cVertexData[index1+1], cVertexData[index1+2]),
          btVector3(cVertexData[index2], cVertexData[index2+1], cVertexData[index2+2]), 
          btVector3(cVertexData[index3], cVertexData[index3+1], cVertexData[index3+2]));
        offset += 18;
    }

    [self releaseRedundantData];

    /*Create a triangle mesh from the vertices*/
    btBvhTriangleMeshShape* cTriMeshShape 
                       = new btBvhTriangleMeshShape(cTriangleMesh,true);
    btCollisionShape *sphereShape = new btSphereShape(1);

    gTriMeshObject =   [_physicsWorld createPhysicsObjectTrimesh:cubeNode 
                            shape:cTriMeshShape 
                            mass:0 
                            restitution:1.0 
                            position:cubeNode.location];
    sphereObject   =   [_physicsWorld createPhysicsObject:sphereNode 
                            shape:sphereShape 
                            mass:1 
                            restitution:0.1 
                            position:sphereNode.location];
    sphereObject.rigidBody->setDamping(0.1,0.8);

    /*Enable debug drawing*/
    _physicsWorld._discreteDynamicsWorld->debugDrawWorld();
}

And My btIDebugDraw implementation (MyDebugDraw.h)

//MyDebugDraw.h
class MyDebugDraw: public btIDebugDraw{
    int m_debugMode;

public:

    virtual void drawLine(const btVector3& from,const btVector3& to
              ,const btVector3& color);

    virtual void   drawContactPoint(const btVector3& PointOnB
             ,const btVector3& normalOnB,btScalar distance
              ,int lifeTime,const btVector3& color);

    virtual void   reportErrorWarning(const char* warningString);

    virtual void   draw3dText(const btVector3& location
                             ,const char* textString);

    virtual void   setDebugMode(int debugMode);

    virtual int      getDebugMode() const;
};

void MyDebugDraw::drawLine(const btVector3& from,const btVector3& to
                              ,const btVector3& color){
    LogInfo(@"Works!!");
    glPushMatrix();
    glColor4f(color.getX(), color.getY(), color.getZ(), 1.0);

    const GLfloat line[] = {
        from.getX()*1, from.getY()*1, from.getZ()*1, //point A
        to.getX()*1, to.getY()*1,to.getZ()*1 //point B
    };
    glVertexPointer( 3,
                    GL_FLOAT,
                    0,
                    &line );
    glPointSize( 5.0f );
    glDrawArrays( GL_POINTS, 0, 2 );
    glDrawArrays( GL_LINES, 0, 2 );
    glPopMatrix();
}

void MyDebugDraw::drawContactPoint(const btVector3 &PointOnB 
         ,const btVector3 &normalOnB, btScalar distance
         ,int lifeTime, const btVector3 &color){      
}

void MyDebugDraw::reportErrorWarning(const char *warningString){
}

void MyDebugDraw::draw3dText(const btVector3 &location
                                , const char *textString){
}

void MyDebugDraw::setDebugMode(int debugMode){
}

int MyDebugDraw::getDebugMode() const{
    return DBG_DrawWireframe;
}

My Problem

The drawLine method is getting called. I can see the cube and sphere in place. Sphere again does some circling around the cube before jumping off.

No debug lines are getting drawn.

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