The Chaos Visual Debugger (CVD) displays data in both the Details panel and Data Inspector tabs located in the bottom-right corner of CVD’s interface.
Each data category has a dedicated Data Inspector:
Particle Data (Details Panel)
The Details panel acts as a data inspector for particle data. In the context of CVD, particles usually refer to rigid bodies.
When you select a particle in the viewport or in the Outliner, this panel populates with all data recorded for that particle. Unlike collision contacts or scene queries, data for selected particles persists in the inspector when you use CVD’s playback controls.
If a selected particle contains collision data, a Show Collision Data Inspector contextual button appears at the bottom of the Details panel. This populates the Collision Data Inspector with the selected particle’s data.
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Details panel for a selected dynamic particle. | Details panel for a selected static particle. |
Collision Data Inspector
The Collision Data Inspector displays information for a selected particle, contact (a point where two collision shapes overlap), or collision pair (two particles that collide with one another).
Since contacts are generated per frame, when you use CVD’s playback controls, the collision data you inspect becomes out of date. Due to this, the Collision Data Inspector only displays data for the last-selected contact during playback.
To populate the Collision Data Inspector with collision pair information, follow these steps:
In the viewport, select a particle with collision data.
Click the Show Collision Data Inspector contextual button that appears in the Details panel.
This populates the Collision Data Inspector with data from the particle, including a dropdown list of available collision pairs.
Select the collision pair you want to inspect.
To identify each particle in the Details panel, Outliner, and Viewport, click the Select Particle 0 or Select Particle 1 button.
Scene Query Inspector
The Scene Query Inspector displays information for a visualized query that is selected in the viewport. This inspector has its own timeline that steps through the objects that were evaluated as part of the query.
A contextual Go to parent query button becomes available if CVD detects that the selected query has performed (or is itself) a subquery. You can use this button to navigate to the parent query.
Scene Query Browser
The Scene Query Browser is an all-in-one browser for inspecting scene queries. To access the Scene Query Browser, click Scene Query Browser in CVD’s main toolbar.
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1 | Enables scene query data flags (identical to those found in Show > Scene Query Data Flags). |
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Identical to the options found in Show > Scene Query Visualization Settings. |
3 | Filters queries by Trace Tag, Trace Owner, Query Type, or Solver Name. |
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5 | Naviagates between recorded queries. This is useful if there are several scene queries on one frame that happen in the same location. |
Joint Constraint Data Inspector
The Joint Constraint Data Inspector displays joint state and joint setting data for joints that are selected in the viewport. Data in this inspector updates as you n through CVD’s playback controls.
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