User's Guide

NVIDIA PhysX SDK

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User's Guide

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Contents:

The Basics
- Building and Running the Samples on Windows
- Build Settings
- Library Redistribution
- Build Configurations
- The API
- Multithreading
- PhysX Visual Debugger
Startup and Shutdown
- The Allocator Callback
- The Error Callback
- Cooking
- Extensions
- Optional SDK Components
- Windows delay load dll
- Shutting Down
Scenes, Materials, and Actors
- The Scene
- The Simulation Loop
- Simulation Memory
- Materials
- Rigid Actors
- Simulation Clients
Shapes and Geometries
- Shapes
- Simulation Shapes and Scene Query Shapes
- Trigger Shapes
- Kinematic triangle meshes (planes, heighfields)
- Geometries
  - Spheres
  - Capsules
  - Boxes
  - Planes
  - Convex Meshes
  - Height Fields
  - Triangle Meshes
- Mesh Scaling
- PxGeometryHolder
- Detaching Shapes
- Shape Vertex and Triangle Queries
Joints
- Joint Basics
- Fixed Joint
- Spherical Joint
- Revolute Joint
- Prismatic Joint
- Distance Joint
- D6 Joint
Rigid Body Dynamics
- Applying Forces and Torques
- Gravity
- Setting the Velocity
- Kinematic Actors
- Sleeping
- Solver Accuracy
- Fast Rotation
- Mass Properties
- Damping
Data Access and Buffering
- General Data Access Rules
- Double Buffering
Task Management
- TaskManager
- CpuDispatcher
- CpuDispatcher Implementation Guidelines
- BaseTask
- Task
- LightCpuTask
GPU Resource Management
- GpuTasks
- CudaContextManager
- GpuDispatcher
- BlockingWait
- Copy Engine Kernel
- CUDA Profiling
Scene Queries
- Raycast queries
- Sweep Queries
  - Sweeps with Initial Intersection
- Overlap Queries
- Filtering
- Caching
- Batched queries
Geometry Queries
- Geometry Objects
- PxGeometryQuery
- PxMeshQuery
Callbacks and Customization
- Simulation Events
- Collision Filtering
- Contact Modification
- Active Transforms
Aggregates
- Introduction
- Creating an Aggregate
- Populating an Aggregate
- Releasing an Aggregate
- Amortizing Insertion
Serialization
- Binary Serialization
- API-level Serialization with RepX
  - Converting between RepX and Binary Serializable Collections
Simulation Statistics
- Interface
- Usage
Advanced Rigid Body Topics
- Continuous Collision Detection
- Articulations
- Substepping
  - Using Completion Tasks
  - Synchronizing with Other Threads
- Custom Constraints
Persistent Contact Manifold
- Introduction
- Enabling the Persistent Contact Manifold
Coulomb Friction
- Introduction
- Enabling The Coulomb Friction Model
Particles
- Introduction
- Creating Particle Systems
- Creating Particles
- Releasing Particles
- Index Pool Extension
- Updating Particles
- Reading Particles
- Particle Drains
- Particle Grid and Spatial Data Structure Overflow
- Collision Filtering
- GPU/CUDA Acceleration
- Additional SampleParticles Information
Cloth
- Introduction
- Creating Cloth Fabric
- Creating Cloth Collision Data
- Continuous Collision Detection
- Creating Cloth
- Simulation Overview
- Particle Integration
- Constraint Solving
- Virtual Particles
- Fricton and Mass Scaling
- Motion Constraints
Vehicles
- Vehicle SDK Initialization
- Vehicle Creation
- Vehicle Actor
- Tire Friction on Drivable Surfaces
- Filtering
- Vehicle Update
- Tire Shaders
- Telemetry
- Vehicle State Queries
- Vehicle Controls
- 3-Wheeled, N-Wheeled Cars, and N-Wheeled Tanks
- Tuning Guide
Character Controllers
- Introduction
- Kinematic Character Controller
- Creating a character controller
- Updating a character controller
- Obstacle objects
- Graphics update
- Character Volume
- Auto Stepping
- Walkable Parts
- Volume Update
- Hit callback
- Behavior callback
- Character interactions
- Hidden kinematic Actors
- Time Stepping
- Invalidating internal caches
PhysX Visual Debugger (PVD)
- PVD
- Basic Setup (SDK Side)
  - Network Setup
  - File Setup
- Advanced Setup
Migration Guide From PhysX SDK 2.x to 3.x
- Changed Actor Hierarchy
- Collision Filtering
- Material Indexes
- Continuous Collision Detection
- Pose Description
- Shape Description
- Joints
- Time Stepping
- Scene Queries
- Raycasts
- Overlaps
- Sweep Tests
- Compartments
- Deformables
Migrating from PhysX SDK 3.1 to 3.2
- Foundation and Common
- Geometry
- Core PhysX
- Cooking
- Deformables
- Particles
- Cloth
- Extensions
- Virtual Remote Debugger Interface
- Character Controller

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