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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1. I will rename StandAloneEngine -> GlobalEngine (since it describeds
> what it really does, globally affecting the scene). But what about
> DeusExMachina? BodyEngine (since it usually operates on a set of
> bodies)?
>
>   
For me, Standalone and Deus could be merged, and Global is a good name 
for this merging. Note some DeusEx  are working on other engines instead 
of bodies.

> 2. Since Law is used for constitutive law, would it make sense to rename
> NewtonsDampedLaw to NewtonIntegrator or something similar? (Damping is
> clearly not the main feature of that class)
>   
Ok. "Damped" is just a trace of when I merged the 6 (or 8?) integrating 
engines into this one, including forceDamping and momentDamping.

> 3. BoundFunctor is currently 2d, dispatching on Shape and Bound. It
> however forces you to decide what collider you use by setting the bound
> type beforehand. I would prefer that BoundFunctor would dispatch only
> based on Shape, but there would have to be a way to specify regular
> bodies (non-clumps), where no bound is required. It could be either a
> Body::noBound or something like that flag, or we could use the
> Body::groupMask in combination with mask of the dispatcher or functors
> to prevent bound for a particular body (hm... what can be such body good
> for? it really makes it as if it were absent from the scene, right?)
>
>   
I have no clear idea on this.

> 4. (already done) Scene* Dispatcher::scene is pointer to the current
> scene. It is updated by every dispatcher in all functors at every step.
> I think the overhead is rather small. It is really just meant for e.g.
> accessing scene->dt from inside the functors, instead of passing
> additional argument to them.
>
>   
Perfect.

Bruno

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