Hiya,

I realize that this is a question best asked on the Bullet forums, but here goes anyway...

What is the correct way to deactivate an RB that is active? Ie. "put to sleep". There is an activate() method but no deactivate(). There is something called forceActivationState(), so I guess I could just pass ISLAND_SLEEPING to that, but it seems awfully hacky. Is there a cleaner way? Also, since it refers to islands, will it affect other nearby objects if I do it that way?

Some other engines have methods for putting objects to sleep regardless of their current state.

I guess, you can use btRigidBody::setFlags method and set proper flags to configure behavior for your rigid body. Here is a list of all flags(line 117).

Ashaman is right. I don't want to touch the collision flags. Anyway, if you get the chance to look up the "right way" and post it here I'd be grateful. :)

Out of interest - why are you wanting to set this yourself rather than letting Bullet set it for you when it thinks the object is actually deactivated?

I am doing networked physics. As long as the RB on the server is active it sends updated transforms to the client every x milliseconds. When it gets deactivated it sends a deactivated-message to the client and stops sending transforms. At this point the client RB needs to be moved to the last known server RB position, and get deactivated, so that the RBs are in sync across the network. If I don't do this there is a slight chance that the RB on the client is not deactivated when the server RB is, and it keeps moving around when it should stay in place.

Ok, makes sense. just had a quick check through as I'd forgotten how this stuff worked exactly, but you should just be able to call :

setActivationState rather then forceActivationState as the former will honour the disable deactivation /simulation states while the latter won't.

it sounds like you're running stepSimulation on the client as well ? (to allow local collision query calls) so the RB would be brought back to life anyway if it was required.