Collider:setSleepingAllowed

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Sets whether the Collider is allowed to automatically go to sleep.

When enabled, the Collider will go to sleep if it hasn't moved in a while. The physics engine does not simulate movement for colliders that are asleep, which saves a lot of CPU for a typical physics world where most objects are at rest at any given time.

Collider:setSleepingAllowed(sleepy)

Notes

Sleeping is enabled by default. Sleeping can be disabled globally using the allowSleep option in lovr.physics.newWorld.

Colliders can still be put to sleep manually with Collider:setAwake, even if automatic sleeping is disabled.

Sleeping colliders will wake up when:

• Colliding with a moving collider
• Awakened explicitly with Collider:setAwake
• Changing position Collider:setPosition or Collider:setOrientation
• Changing velocity (to something non-zero)
• Applying force, torque, or an impulse
• Enabling a joint connected to the sleeping collider

Notably, the following will not wake up the collider:

• Changing its kinematic state with Collider:setKinematic
• Changing its shape with Collider:addShape or Collider:removeShape
• Disabling or destroying a sleeping collider it is resting on

Sensors will never go to sleep.

See also

• Collider:isAwake
• Collider:setAwake
• Collider:isSleepingAllowed
• Collider