Migrating From PhysX SDK 5.7 to 5.8

• This guide highlights all significant parts of the API that have changed in the last release. An application with a working integration of the older version of PhysX should be able to easily migrate to the newer version by following these pointers.

Generic

• Removed the deprecated solver residual reporting feature. There is no replacement.

  • PxSceneFlag::eENABLE_SOLVER_RESIDUAL_REPORTING

  • PxScene::getSolverResidual()

  • PxConstraint::getSolverResidual()

  • PxArticulationReducedCoordinate::getSolverResidual()

  • PxResidual

  • PxResiduals

  • PxConstraintResidual

  • PxSceneResidual

  • PxArticulationResidual

• The CUDA host memory containers and corresponding allocators have been removed from the public headers without deprecation. The corresponding classes are not needed to interact with the PhysX SDK API.

  • PxVirtualAllocator, PxVirtualAllocatorCallback, PxPinnedAllocator have been removed.

  • PxPinnedArray and PxPinnedArraySafe have been removed.

  • The following typedefs have been removed: PxFloatArrayPinned, PxInt32ArrayPinned, PxInt16ArrayPinned, PxInt8ArrayPinned, PxFloatArrayPinnedSafe, PxInt32ArrayPinnedSafe, PxInt16ArrayPinnedSafe, PxInt8ArrayPinnedSafe.

  • PxBitMapPinned was removed.