Best way to organize complex scene with lots of static bodies?

[gigablox]

Character demo village is complex scene with lots of static bodies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjaJT9of7UE

Is it better to use:

• A single large, combined, static body made from primitive shapes that represents the entire scene?
• Multiple small static bodies made from primitives, a house, a table, all separate?

Thanks!

[jrouwe]

I would say you have to measure for your particular scene. We divide the world in a coarse 2D grid and collapse all objects that roughly fall within a cell in a CompoundShape and have 1 body per cell. In general we use MeshShapes for most of the static geo and we don't try to break it down in many convex pieces (like boxes).

[gigablox]

Thank you