[Heini]

Hi,

recently I ran into some trouble with the psysics system in conjunction with loading the scenes dynamically. I load my different scenes with a Loader element. So for example I have a scene for my menu and another one for my game. Please try the following code (using a main.qml, whith the Loader element inside):

MenuScene.qml:

import QtQuick 2.0
import Felgo 3.0

Scene {
    width: 480
    height: 320

    Text{
        anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
        text: "Mainmenu"
    }

    SimpleButton{
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        text: "To GameScene"
        onClicked:{
            loader.source = "GameScene.qml"
        }
    }
}

 

GameScene.qml:

import QtQuick 2.0
import Felgo 3.0

Scene {
    id: scene
    width: 480
    height: 320

    EntityManager{
        id: entityManager
        entityContainer: scene
    }


    PhysicsWorld{
        id: physicsWorld
        gravity.y: -9.81
        anchors.fill: parent

    }

    EntityWithCollider{
        id: entity
        x: 100
        y: 100
    }

    Text{
        text: "Gamescene"
        anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
    }

    SimpleButton{
        text: "Back"
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        onClicked:{

            loader.source = "MenuScene.qml"
        }
    }
}

 

Start now by loading the MenuScene.qml. When you load then the “gamescene”, everything seems to be ok. Go back to the mainmenu and enter the gamescene again. Now the game is hanging up immediately. It seems to fail the initialize process of the physics world. The last debug output I get is:
Box2DWorld: set gravity to QPointF(0, 0)
Box2DWorld: set gravity to QPointF(0, -9.81)

This seems to be a VPlay 2 bug – VPlay 1 does not show that behavior.

 

Cheers,

Heini

• This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by  Guybrush.

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi Heini,

thanks for reporting this bug!

You can change the Back button handling in GameScene temporarily to this code:

  SimpleButton{
    text: "Back"
    anchors.centerIn: parent
    onClicked:{
      physicsWorld.invalidateContextProperty()
      loader.source = "MenuScene.qml"
    }
  }

The issue will be fixed with the next Felgo version.

However, I would not recommend to remove the whole EntityManager and PhysicsWorld, as you then prevent pooling of entities. So it is best to instantiate the GameScene without a loader, and the remaining scenes with a loader if you want to reduce loading times.

Cheers, Chris

[Heini]

Hi Chris,

I am not using entity pooling in my case, because I would like to keep memory consuption as low as possible. That´s also the reason I load the scenes dynamically. Keeping the whole gamescene in memory all the time would be to expensive and drive my app unstable.

 

Cheers,

Heini