Kinematica - Way to disable / enable in runtime?

Hello,

There is currently no way to pause Kinematica. However the costly part of Kinematica is actually mostly done in the client Job making the motion matching queries, so you can simply not run this job when you want to disable Kinematica. Kinematica own job will continue to run, but it will just advance time and read the corresponding pose from the library which is a pretty cheap operation.

Example for Biped.cs from Biped sample :

Code (CSharp):

1.        
2.  
3. public bool enableKinematica = true;
4.  
5.         void Update()
6.         {
7.             if (!enableKinematica)
8.             {
9.                 return;
10.             }
11.  
12.             float desiredSpeed = moveIntensity * desiredLinearSpeed;
13.  
14.             TrajectoryPrediction.CreateFromDirection(ref kinematica.Synthesizer.Ref,
15.                 movementDirection,
16.                 desiredSpeed,
17.                 trajectory,
18.                 velocityPercentage,
19.                 forwardPercentage).Generate();
20.  
21.             KinematicaJob job = new KinematicaJob()
22.             {
23.                 synthesizer = kinematica.Synthesizer,
24.                 idleCandidates = idleCandidates,
25.                 locomotionCandidates = locomotionCandidates,
26.                 trajectory = trajectory,
27.                 idle = moveIntensity == 0.0f
28.             };
29.  
30.             kinematica.AddJobDependency(job.Schedule());
31.         }

If you set

enableKinematica

to false, queries won't be executed

 

Yes you're right, we will support easy enabling/disabling of Snapshot debugger & Kinematica in the future !