I want to compare the restitution of Unity’s and Isaac’s physics engines. Both Unity and Isaac use different version PhysX however I dont think this is the reason for the weird behaviour.
I am using GPU PhysX for Isaac.
I made a test consisting of a sphere rigidbody falling from 5 units onto a plane.
The combined restitution is set to average.
The graph shows that as the restitution get closer to 0.2, the ball bounces higher (on isaac) and then as the restitution moves above 0.2 the ball bounces lower?
This graph shows 11 tests of increasing restitutions in Isaac and Unity. Unity seems to have the correct behaviour (with very small bounces and small restitutions).
I also tested just with Isaac the motions of the ball with restitutions going all the way up to 1, with the motions of the balls overlayed on top of each other.
On this test the combined restitution of the ball is set to max.
The bottom graph shows the peaks of the first bounce. You would expect this value to gradually increase as the restitution increases but at the beginning there is this weird anomaly.
This behaviour doesn’t happen when running on CPU.
Is this a bug or can it be explained by a PhysX parameter I’m missing?
Thanks.