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Posted: **Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:13 am**

Why bullet needs maxSubSteps at all? Why to clamp value at all? In the code i saw the following comment:

    //clamp the number of substeps, to prevent simulation grinding spiralling down to a halt
    int clampedSimulationSteps = (numSimulationSubSteps > maxSubSteps) ? maxSubSteps : numSimulationSubSteps;

What does it mean?

code wrote: simulation grinding spiralling down

Posted: **Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:57 am**

Clamping is important in real-time simulations, otherwise you get a feedback loop of slower and slower (grinding to a halt) if the time it takes to simulate is slower then the real-time clock.

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dt = clock.deltaTime();
stepSimulation(dt);//if this takes longer than dt, then the next iteration, the dt will be larger, and stepSimulation also takes longer etc etc.

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Why bullet proposes value to clamp number of substeps?

Why bullet proposes value to clamp number of substeps?

Re: Why bullet proposes value to clamp number of substeps?