Synchronous simContinueForTime?

[ANogin]

The typical use of simContinueForTime (including in AirSim's own examples) seems to be to immediately sleep for just a bit longer than the simContinueForTime argument (ideally also accounting for ClockSpeed/etc). This seems both unnecessary, unnecessarily slow (if the extra sleep is largish), error-prone (if the extra sleep is not enough, if the clock speed is not accounted for, etc). Would it be possible to have a synchronous version of simContinueForTime that would simply block until after the sim is done?

[yannbouteiller]

You can implement a kinda synchronous version of simContinueForTime() by doing this, even though this is not very satisfactory: microsoft/AirSim-NeurIPS2019-Drone-Racing#17 (comment)

[madratman]

Hey @ANogin, can you give #2292 a shot?
simPause should now actually pause everything. I'm leaning towards removing simContinueForTime() and let the user just have simPause(True) and simPause(False) (or well simPause() and simUnpause().
cc @sytelus

[ANogin]

Hey @ANogin, can you give #2292 a shot?
simPause should now actually pause everything. I'm leaning towards removing simContinueForTime() and let the user just have simPause(True) and simPause(False) (or well simPause() and simUnpause().
cc @sytelus

I do not see how that would help at all - what I want is to run the simulator for a specified amount of simulated time, and then have it pause and tell me when it is done.

[madratman]

@ANogin, gotcha. I updated the API to do that. Can you give it a shot now? Also, see discussion here microsoft/AirSim-NeurIPS2019-Drone-Racing#113 (comment)

[yannbouteiller]

@ANogin, gotcha. I updated the API to do that. Can you give it a shot now? Also, see discussion here microsoft/AirSim-NeurIPS2019-Drone-Racing#113 (comment)

Sorry @madratman but I didn't see this comment, do you mean that SimContinueForTime() has been updated from using the CPU time to using the simulated time ?

[yannbouteiller]

(Oh my bad you only made it synchronous, right?)