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Hi,
I'm using BulletPhysics 2.86.1.

I have called setAngularFactor(btVector3(0, 0, 1)) on my rigid body, but after calling stepSimulation the m_angularVelocity.x() and m_angularVelocity.y() started gaining non zero values, and at the end they became non-negligible.
Somehow btSequentialImpulseConstraintSolver called setAngularVelocity with btVector3 with non-zero x and y components.

Is it a bug in Bullet Physics or my expectations were wrong?

Best,
Piotr

Hi,

You should use setAngularVelocity instead of setAngularFactor in order to reset your object angular velocity

I'm not sure I understand, should I zero angularVelocity.x after each step, even though my angularFactor.x is 0?

Maybe I'll rephrase my question.
Initial angularVelocity was 0,0,0 and angularFactor 0,0,1.
Still after a step of simulation angularVelocity's x and y where != 0.
Is it expected?

It's weird indeed. How much is the difference each steps ?

Otherwise, you can use the tick callback system to set 0 velocity to your body.

I'm not at the computer right now, but at first angular velocity was tiny, but after couple of thousand of steps it became really large.

For what it's worth the body was a compound shape composed of two convex hull shapes (computed by vhacd) moving in a box build of static plane shapes with gravity slightly changing every couple of steps.

Below are first few values passed to setAngularVelocity by the btSequentialImpulseConstraintSolver (z is unconstrained so it's ok it's non-zero).
The workaround zeroing the velocity at each tick works ok for me, thanks.

x: 0.000000000 y: 0.000000000 z: 5.82549120e-10
x: 0.000000000 y: -4.33680869e-19 z: 8.80287232e-10
x: 0.000000000 y: -4.33680869e-19 z: 8.80287232e-10
x: -5.55111512e-17 y: 2.16840409e-19 z: 9.58578106e-10
x: -5.55111512e-17 y: 2.16840409e-19 z: 9.58578106e-10
x: -5.55111512e-17 y: 4.33680869e-19 z: 4.40360415e-10
x: -4.16333634e-17 y: 3.25260652e-19 z: 6.22335738e-10
x: -8.32667268e-17 y: 7.58941521e-19 z: 8.46161696e-10
x: -5.55111512e-17 y: 6.50521303e-19 z: 1.02264475e-09
x: -1.11022302e-16 y: 8.67361738e-19 z: -1.22654220e-10
x: -1.11022302e-16 y: 8.67361738e-19 z: 3.81572551e-11
x: -1.07552856e-16 y: 8.60585474e-19 z: 5.38624478e-10
x: -8.32667268e-17 y: 8.67361738e-19 z: 2.43765841e-10
x: -8.32667268e-17 y: 9.21571847e-19 z: 9.07441677e-10
x: -8.32667268e-17 y: 7.58941521e-19 z: 3.99350419e-09
x: -1.11022302e-16 y: 2.16840434e-19 z: -1.54626523e-09
x: -3.33066907e-16 y: 8.67361738e-19 z: -7.83867804e-10
x: -3.33066907e-16 y: 5.42101086e-19 z: -1.36592682e-10
x: -3.33066907e-16 y: 5.55653613e-19 z: 5.36745093e-10
x: -3.05311332e-16 y: 4.33680869e-19 z: 9.62212643e-10
x: -2.77555756e-16 y: -1.08420191e-19 z: -1.55775393e-12
x: -2.77122075e-16 y: -1.07996701e-19 z: -4.25992103e-10
x: -2.63677968e-16 y: -1.62630326e-19 z: 6.41859621e-11