Hi, this is a confusing non intuitive change in default behaviour that showes up if one updates ExternalForces, and I feel like it is a bug.
How i found the strange behaviour/maybe-bug
I had commented out // .insert_resource(Gravity(Vector::NEG_Y * 9.81 * 100.0)), but my blocks were still falling down. Very confusing.
It stoped falling down if i never updated ExternalForce. If i used myForceFromQuery.apply_force(Vector::ZERO);, it would start to fall again. I thought it might be something wrong with the forces.
After printing stuff in avian2d-0.1.2/src/dynamics/integrator/mod.rs:214, i learned that it uses the default 9.81 gravity. Indeed, if i spesificly set gravity to zero, then this behaviour is gone. .insert_resource(Gravity::ZERO).
It is very confusing that gravity is default off, but suddenly becomes default earth-gravity if I update the ExternalForces.
It might be that it internally always is default -9.81, but never used unless one starts to use ExternalForces. I dont know, but it was confusing
What i suggest should change:
Gravity should have the same default for Entities, with and without updates to ExternalForces. (I would preffer off, but as long as it is the same i am ok with it)
Hi, this is a confusing non intuitive change in default behaviour that showes up if one updates ExternalForces, and I feel like it is a bug.
How i found the strange behaviour/maybe-bug
I had commented out
// .insert_resource(Gravity(Vector::NEG_Y * 9.81 * 100.0)), but my blocks were still falling down. Very confusing. It stoped falling down if i never updated ExternalForce. If i usedmyForceFromQuery.apply_force(Vector::ZERO);, it would start to fall again. I thought it might be something wrong with the forces.After printing stuff in avian2d-0.1.2/src/dynamics/integrator/mod.rs:214, i learned that it uses the default 9.81 gravity. Indeed, if i spesificly set gravity to zero, then this behaviour is gone.
.insert_resource(Gravity::ZERO).It is very confusing that gravity is default off, but suddenly becomes default earth-gravity if I update the ExternalForces. It might be that it internally always is default -9.81, but never used unless one starts to use ExternalForces. I dont know, but it was confusing
What i suggest should change:
Gravity should have the same default for Entities, with and without updates to ExternalForces. (I would preffer off, but as long as it is the same i am ok with it)
Alternativly:
If this is intended behaviour, I feel that we need a note on this in the documentation https://docs.rs/avian2d/latest/avian2d/dynamics/rigid_body/struct.ExternalForce.html
🫡 Thanks for listening
Other than this I am having a great first experience with Avian so far 👍 😃