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Physics for Games Physics for Games Programmers Programmers Problem Problem
OverviewOverview
Squirrel Eiserloh
Technical DirectorRitual Entertainment
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Types of Problems Knowing when to cheat Simplifying things Giving shape to things Moving things around Simulation baggage Detecting (and resolving) collisions Sustained interactions Dealing with the impossible Making it fast enough
Knowing When To Cheat
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Knowing When to Cheat Discrete physics simulation falls
embarrassingly short of reality. “Real” physics is prohibitively
expensive... ...so we cheat. We need to cheat enough to be able to
run in real time. We need to not cheat so much that
things break in a jarring and unrecoverable way.
Much of the challenge is knowing how and when to cheat.
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Knowing When to Cheat
Ask: “Will the player notice?” “Will the player care?” “Will the results be predictable?” “Are we at least cheating in a consistent
way?” “Will the simulation break?”
If the simulation breaks, they will notice and they will care
Some crimes are greater than others
Simplifying Things
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Simplifying Things
Simplified bodies
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Simplifying Things
Simplified bodies Even more
simplified bodies
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Simplifying Things
Simplified bodies Even more
simplified bodies Convex bodies
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Simplifying Things
Simplified bodies Even more
simplified bodies Convex bodies Homogeneous
bodies
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Simplifying Things
Simplified bodies Even more
simplified bodies Convex bodies Homogeneous
bodies Rigid bodies
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Simplifying Things
Simplified bodies Even more
simplified bodies Convex bodies Homogeneous
bodies Rigid bodies Indestructible
bodies
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Simplifying Things
Movement is often assumed to be in a vacuum (ignoring air resistance)
Even when air resistance does get simulated, it is hugely oversimplified
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Simplifying Things
Collisions are often assumed to be perfect and elastic
That is, 100% of the energy before the collision is maintained after the collision
Think billiard balls
Giving Shape to Things
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Giving Shape to Things
N-sphere 2d: Disc 3d: Sphere
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Giving Shape to Things
N-sphere 2d: Disc 3d: Sphere
Simplex 2d: Triangle 3d: Tetrahedron
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Giving Shape to Things
N-sphere 2d: Disc 3d: Sphere
Simplex 2d: Triangle 3d: Tetrahedron
Convex Polytope 2d: Convex Polygon 3d: Convex
Polyhedron a.k.a. “Convex Hull” a.k.a. “Brush” (Quake)
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Giving Shape to Things
Discrete Oriented Polytope (DOP)
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Giving Shape to Things
Discrete Oriented Polytope (DOP)
Oriented Bounding Box (OBB)
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Giving Shape to Things
Discrete Oriented Polytope (DOP)
Oriented Bounding Box (OBB)
Axis-Aligned Bounding Box (AABB)
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Giving Shape to Things
Discrete Oriented Polytope (DOP)
Oriented Bounding Box (OBB)
Axis-Aligned Bounding Box (AABB)
Capsule
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Giving Shape to Things
Discrete Oriented Polytope (DOP)
Oriented Bounding Box (OBB)
Axis-Aligned Bounding Box (AABB)
Capsule Cylinder (3d only)
Moving Things Around
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Moving Things Around Kinematics
Describes motion Uses position,
velocity, momentum, acceleration
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Moving Things Around Kinematics
Describes motion Uses position,
velocity, momentum, acceleration
Dynamics Explains motion Uses forces ...and impulses
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Moving Things Around Kinematics
Describes motion Uses position,
velocity, momentum, acceleration
Dynamics Explains motion Forces (F=ma) Impulses
Rotation Torque Angular momentum Moment of inertia
Simulation Baggage
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Simulation Baggage
Flipbook syndrome
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Simulation Baggage
Flipbook syndrome Things can happen
in-between snapshots
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Simulation Baggage
Flipbook syndrome Things mostly
happen in-between snapshots
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Simulation Baggage
Flipbook syndrome Things mostly
happen in-between snapshots
Curved trajectories treated as piecewise linear
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Simulation Baggage
Flipbook syndrome Things mostly
happen in-between snapshots
Curved trajectories treated as piecewise linear
Terms often assumed to be constant throughout the frame
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Simulation Baggage (cont’d)
Error accumulates
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Simulation Baggage (cont’d)
Error accumulates Energy is not
always conserved Energy loss can be
undesirable Energy gain is evil
Simulations explode!
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Simulation Baggage (cont’d)
Error accumulates Energy is not
always conserved Energy loss can be
undesirable Energy gain is evil
Simulations explode!
Rotations are often assumed to happen instantaneously at frame boundaries
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Simulation Baggage (cont’d)
Error accumulates Energy is not always
conserved Energy loss can be
undesirable Energy gain is evil
Simulations explode!
Rotations are often assumed to happen instantaneously at frame boundaries
Numerical nightmares!
Collision Detection
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Collision Detection
We need to determine if A and B intersect
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Collision Detection
We need to determine if A and B intersect
Worse yet, they could be (and probably are) in motion
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Collision Detection
We need to determine if A and B intersect
Worse yet, they could be (and probably are) in motion
If they did collide, we probably also need to know when they collided
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Collision Response
...and we need to figure out how to resolve the collision
Sustained Interactions
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Sustained Interactions
Surface contact
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Sustained Interactions
Surface contact Edge contact
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Sustained Interactions
Surface contact Edge contact Contact points
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Sustained Interactions
Surface contact Edge contact Contact points
Different solutions
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Sustained Interactions
Surface contact Edge contact Contact points
Different solutions Stacking
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Sustained Interactions
Surface contact Edge contact Contact points
Different solutions Stacking Friction
Static & Kinetic
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Sustained Interactions
Surface contact Edge contact Contact points
Different solutions Stacking Friction
Static & Kinetic Constraints & Joints
Dealing With the Impossible
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Dealing With the Impossible
Interpenetration
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Dealing With the Impossible
Interpenetration Tunneling
Tunneling(Sucks)
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Tunneling
Small objects tunnel more easily
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Tunneling (cont’d)
Possible solutions Minimum size requirement?
Inadequate; fast objects still tunnel
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Tunneling (cont’d)
Fast-moving objects tunnel more easily
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Tunneling (cont’d)
Possible solutions Minimum size requirement?
Inadequate; fast objects still tunnel Maximum speed limit?
Inadequate; since speed limit is a function of object size, this would mean small & fast objects (bullets) would not be allowed
Smaller time step? Helpful, but inadequate; this is essentially the
same as a speed limit
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Tunneling (cont’d)
Besides, even with min. size requirements and speed limits and a small timestep, you still have degenerate cases that cause tunneling!
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Tunneling (cont’d)
Tunneling is very, very bad – this is not a “mundane detail” Things falling through world Bullets passing through people or walls Players getting places they shouldn’t Players missing a trigger boundary
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Tunneling (cont’d)
Interpenetration Tunneling Rotational
tunneling
Making It Fast Enough
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Making It Fast Enough
Don’t be too particular too soon Avoid unnecessary
work
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Making It Fast Enough
Don’t be too particular too soon Avoid unnecessary
work Eschew n-squared
operations Avoid the
“everything vs. everything” case
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Making It Fast Enough
Don’t be too particular too soon Avoid unnecessary
work Eschew n-squared
operations Avoid the
“everything vs. everything” case
Try using simulation islands or other methods to divide and conquer
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Simulation Islands
Consider: 1000 objects, 1
island 1000x1000 checks = 1 Million checks
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Simulation Islands
Consider: 1000 objects, 1
island 1000x1000 checks = 1 Million checks
Verses: 1000 objects,
divided into 10 islands of 100
10 x (100x100) checks
= 100,000 checks 1/10th as many!
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Simulation Islands
Simulation islands can “go to sleep” when they become stable i.e. when forces and
motion remain unchanged
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Simulation Islands
Simulation islands can “go to sleep” when they become stable i.e. when forces and
motion remain unchanged
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Simulation Islands
Simulation islands can “go to sleep” when they become stable i.e. when forces and
motion remain unchanged
When an object enters the island’s bounds...
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Simulation Islands
Simulation islands can “go to sleep” when they become stable i.e. when forces and
motion remain unchanged
When an object enters the island’s bounds...
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Simulation Islands
Simulation islands can “go to sleep” when they become stable i.e. when forces and
motion remain unchanged
When an object enters the island’s bounds...
...the island wakes up
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Simulation Islands
Add the newcomer to this simulation island
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Simulation Islands
Add the newcomer to this simulation island
...and put it back to sleep once it stabilizes
This is just one of many ways to reduce complexity
We’ll be covering several others later on
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Making It Fast Enough
Can also exploit work previously done Make “educated assumptions” using:
Temporal/frame coherence: Things tend not to have changed a whole lot in the 15ms or so since the previous frame, so save the previous frame’s results!
Spatial coherence: Things tend to miss each other far more often than they collide, and only things in the same neighborhood can collide with each other
Summary
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Summary The nature of simulation causes us
real problems... problems which can’t be ignored
So we cheat And we simplify things And even then, it can get quite
complex...
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Summary (cont’d)
Problems we’re concerned with: How should we choose to represent physical
bodies? How should we simulate and compute motion? How can we prevent energy build-up? How do we cope with floating point error? How can we detect collisions – especially when
large numbers of objects are involved? How should we resolve penetration? How should we handle contact? How can we prevent tunneling? How do we deal with non-rigid bodies?