:o tysm!! I really hope this solves the issue I’ve been having!
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Fully agree, no matter what changes are made, we need a way to force no-sleep on parts. Way too many games, especially realistic physics simulations and other uses of slow-moving or slow-accelerating parts will require this. This will result in vehicles being jerky when starting to move from being stationary as they wont start moving until their forces become “significant” regardless of our existing smoothing for their acceleration.
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This is great, but when are we gonna get physics that doesn’t clip through objects? I’d love to be able to set specific objects to run higher detailed physics so they don’t clip through.
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Thank you so much for being transparent on the constants used for the thresholds between sleeping and waking assemblies. I know people have asked for an API to dictate whether an assembly should be forcefully-kept awake, but imo this is even better—keeping parts from falling asleep, without causing weird engine quirks & edge-cases to consider.
And the in-depth information is the cherry on top of it all! Developers had to guess & experiment around to figure such behavior out before this. 
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Would also be nice if we could keep client sided parts awake even when they are out side the bounds of content streaming
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please add a toggle for allowing the part to sleep.
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to be truly completed this requires an ability to keep parts awake and lower the thresholds for putting them to sleep
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Nice update, but will that affect player characters?
Making improvements and fixes is cool, but it’s really weird how roblox refuses to provide manual control for a lot of things to developers.
Why are these sleep thresholds not adjustable? There should at least be a way to force parts to be awake or go to sleep via code.
Stuff like that might be extremely useful in some niche scenarios, for example an extremely slowly moving part or optimization by instantly putting to sleep lots of unused parts.
Same goes for streaming, pathfinding, and perhaps some other systems.
Manual control over network ownership is one area where control has been given, thankfully, and it’s amazing.
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Agreed.
We need methods like Runservice:Sleep(Part:BasePart) and Runservice:Awake:(Part:BasePart)!
I could make a feature requests, but i don’t have permission to do so
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Are these improvements only disabled in production, or are they also disabled in the studio?
as far as i know player characters always simulate their physics
hi, would you mind telling me what this term “sleep” means?
when BaseParts are sleeping, it means their physics are not simulated by your client or the server
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Awesome improvement, wondering now if I can bump up the max number of physics objects in my game.
This video shows a smoking gun for a subset of use cases though. Small parts moving slowly (and not even that slowly) will just fall asleep, which makes small or detailed assemblies not reliable. The engine should have a dedicated way to prevent certain parts from falling asleep.
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ohh yea yea now i get it. Tnx pal
Why, why, why is it so hard to give a property such as ForbidSleep to parts, unions, and meshes? Having a smaller threshold does not solve the problem that is plaguing bowling games and anything similar.
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Honestly just really need a property on BaseParts to prevent sleeping at all times
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roblox likes to help out developers but not too much
gotta keep our minds sharp, can’t be getting lazy can we
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