physics.start()

Overview

This function start the physics simulation and should be called before any other physics functions.

By default, physical bodies not involved in a collision will "sleep" after a few seconds. This reduces performance overhead, but in some cases you may not want this behavior. This is particularly true in apps that use the accelerometer to effect changes in physics gravity — in this case, sleeping bodies will not respond to changes in the direction of gravity.

You can override this behavior on any given body with the body.isSleepingAllowed = false command (reference), or override it globally for all bodies in the world by using an optional boolean parameter in physics.start() (see Syntax below).

Gotchas

The following lines should typically be at the top of the main.lua file.

local physics = require( "physics" )
physics.start()

Syntax

physics.start( noSleep )