Story:
Recently I wanted to try out soft-body physics in WebGL with AmmoJs. Everything worked, but when I tried to add a second soft-body object, it always fails. Both in BabylonJs and ThreeJs.
The error I get: b._free is not a function.
When:
when trying to press Play in BabylonJs Playground,
when trying to add a second soft-body object.
Where:
Latest BabylonJs/ThreeJs, chrome, firefox, chrome android.
Reproduce:
It happens for me even in the Playground - No need for the second soft-body physics object, just press the Play button again and you’ll get that bug. It is the AmmoJs’s problem I think, but I was surprised that no one from Babylon and from ThreeJs reported about this bug. Or am I the only one with this bug?
Hi @ruzrobert and welcome to the forum! This was discussed in this forum thread Adding @Cedric / @RaananW to re-hydrate the discussion to see if there is a fix.
Thank you @thomlucc ! Will be waiting for the update!
Also, it looks like the forum’s content is hidden from google search bots in the robots.txt, and that’s why I wasn’t able to find anything about my bug from the outside
the robots.txt file does not limit googlebot from indexing the page. Not sure where you see it?
Google indexes the forum at its own pace, so there might be some pages that were not yet indexed. we are sadly not in control of that… But you do get results when searching in google:
Hey @RaananW , thank you for checking. You seem right, google search is working for this forum. I was trying to search specifically the “b._free is not a function” part and wasn’t able to find anything. Now, this topic appears there, so everything’s good
Yes, it does feel like the ammo build is missing a function. @Cedric is a little busy for the next day or two, but I am sure he will find time to investigate.
It’s the same issue as Physics demo messed up? - #11 by Cedric
Did we update ammojs build recently?
Can we have a CI build that build ammo with needed parameters automatically?
@leeren@RaananW@Cedric This bug happens only for a non-wasm build of the ammo.js, I think (it was like that when I was using Three js). From what I’ve found out, this is probably related to the build arguments for the non-wasm build of ammo, or idk. Hope that it can be fixed
Hey, this is still an issue somehow it seems. Just trying to press play more than once in the playground on any softbody example triggers it. I have tried chrome and safari on both mac and iphone and windows on edge. I have tried different versions of babylon. It doesn’t work still. Any thoughts here @Cedric? Was really stoked to use Babylon for a project but this makes me nervous. Threejs examples I find online work fine.
@alynes If I understand this correctly, this doesn’t seem like an issue with the library Babylon.js itself. Rather, it just seems like an issue on the Playground side (with reloading Ammo WASM without a refresh)
If you were to use Babylon.js in your own project, I don’t believe you would see this issue
