I was a huge Diablo II player back in the day and probably wasted a good year of my life playing it non-stop. Since I have been busy with the working world and various other things, I have not had the time to follow Diablo III and the beta as much as I would like. One thing that just got my attention was that Diablo III will be making extensive use of physics in the game. Diablo III will be using a custom in-house game engine that was originally going to use Havok Physics for the game physics but this was later dropped for a custom solution. According to the diablowiki “One of the features of the engine is that players are able to utilize the environment to help in their quest. For example, huge walls can be reduced to rubble to squash monsters.” the physics engine also features some really impressive cloth, ragdoll, and destruction physics that you can see in the video i embedded below. I can’t find any official mention of this but it appears that the Diablo III community refers to the physics as Moon Physics. There is also an entire page here from diablowiki.net.
The video below from YouTube user Pyloneer is 13 minutes long and shows off some great gameplay with all of the physics effects in the game, check it out.
Diablo III – 13 minutes of gameplay (Game Physics)
Sorry for the lack of updates here on GamePhys, I have been busy with work along with studying for my CCNA and VCP5, I also turned my dedicated PhysX test system into a temporary ESXi host for my vSphere lab. But don’t worry, I will have some Hybrid PhysX reviews/guides up soon! Today I wanted to post about the Borderlands 2 GPU PhysX/GTX 680 tech demo that was shown at one of the recent Nvidia GeForce GTX Meet-Up events in San Francisco on March 28. In this video from NVIDIA for the GTX 680 launch event, it was announced by Gearbox founder and CEO Randy Pitchford, that Borderlands 2 will make extensive use of GPU PhysX with everything from particle physics, water physics, cloth physics, destruction and more! The video shows each of these GPU PhysX effects in detail and it looks really impressive. Definitely going to keep an eye on Borderlands 2 and its PhysX. Check it out below. I also embedded 13 Minutes of Borderlands 2 Gameplay presented by Gearbox Software from PAX East 2012.
Now this is pretty cool and something I hope to see more of in the future. Rozengain has made a short demo using Ogre 3D with PhysX being controlled by the Xbox Kinect. Check it out below.
Old video showing Kinect, Ogre & PhysX. Real time movement & PhysX. I used this for my gotoAndSki(), FFK11 and FITC Toronto presentations.
At this years EVE Online Fanfest, Tony Tamasi, NVIDIA’s Senior Vice President of Content & Technology showed off a very cool tech demo during the keynote showing DX11 Tessellation of the EVE Online ships and also upcoming PhysX integration into the game. Tony showed off space-based hardware-accelerated PhysX effects where hundreds of hardware-accelerated asteroids crashed into the Revenant’s shielded hull and themselves and then broke apart and fractured against the ship or each other. Very cool stuff. Check out the video below and read the rest of the GeForce article here.
During this year’s keynote, Tony Tamasi, NVIDIA’s Senior Vice President of Content & Technology, took to the stage of one of Europe’s largest opera houses to reveal a special EVE Online tech demo. Developed by NVIDIA’s Iain Cantlay, in partnership with EVE Online creator CCP, the demo opened with a close-up of Sansha Nation’s recognizable Revenant Mothership.
Switching back to the Sansha Revenant, Tony showed another addition: space-based hardware-accelerated PhysX effects. Powered by the CUDA Cores present on all NVIDIA graphics cards released in the last five years, PhysX provides accurate, realistic interactions between objects. Already used in the Captain’s Quarters for avatar cloth and hair movement, Tony’s demo showed hundreds of hardware-accelerated asteroids crashing into the Revenant’s shielded hull and themselves.
To date, ships have merely bounced off EVE Online’s asteroids without actually colliding, but with PhysX, new, more realistic gameplay mechanics become possible, aping famous scenes from science fiction TV shows and movies. As the demo progressed, the PhysX-powered asteroids struck the ship’s shield, bouncing away realistically, pieces and particles breaking free using NVIDIA’s dynamic Fracture technology, only to hit further asteroids before bouncing again, once more with chunks breaking away on separate trajectories. Adding to the excitement, CCP’s Halldor revealed that the new additions look “incredible” in 3D Vision thanks to the geometric detail created by tessellation, which allows our stereoscopic 3D technology to better layer the asteroids and other scene elements.
This video demonstrates DirectX 11 Tessellation and PhysX fragmentation technologies from Nvidia using art assets from EVE Online. The technology preview was produced as a collaboration between CCP Games and Nvidia and was premiered during the EVE Online Fanfest 2012.
I am pleased to announce that GamePhys will soon have a dedicated test and benchmarking system for the site. This was a project I have been meaning to do since I started the site back in 2009 but never got around to it. The first phase of this project really got started this past BlackRead More
On Friday at GDC 2012, Aron Zoellner and Kevin Newkirk of NVIDIA presented a really nice hour long session titled Enhancing Games with APEX PhysX (Clothing, Destruction, Turbulence). In this presentation they went over the features of APEX PhysX Cloth, Destruction, and Turbulence which we have seen implemented in recent games like Mafia II andRead More
We have been hearing rumors for the past year now that AMD GPU’s will be used in the next generation consoles however, aside from reports that the Xbox would use a Fusion variant of Bulldozer, we have not been hearing to much about the actual CPU that may be used. Now SemiAccurate claims that theRead More
Zombiethatatehimself creator of the Awesome Apex PhysX Impact Damage Demonstration and Apex PhysX Impact Damage Demonstration With Stucco/plaster, and the Apex PhysX Voronoi Fracture and Destruction Demonstration has made another cool Apex PhysX demonstration with the Unreal Development Kit. This time a similar to the Voronoi Fracture and destruction demonstration but with some cool plasterRead More
Some nice news from Havok as they have announced that they have entered into a “worldwide license agreement with Nintendo Co., Ltd., to make Havok Physics and Havok Animation available to studios around the world developing on Nintendo’s Wii U™ platform” Hopefully we will see some cool games implement Havok Physics and destruction. The WiiRead More
F1nalspace has made a pretty cool PhysX SPH fluids sandbox you can download and play with showing off some awesome PhysX based SPH(smoothed particle hydrodynamics). Check it out below. I made a fluid simulation in C++ with several customizable scenarios using PhysX SDK 3.0.2 rendered with OpenGL. Fluid rendering is done using a technique calledRead More
I just wanted to post these cool UDK PhysX videos I came across on YouTube. UDK wood fracture from 19minimin91 UDK/Apex Destructible Level Test from lankeytom UDK Physics Fun by GrinchPa
Now this is exciting news, Epic Games has announced in their GDC 2012 press release that they will be showcasing Unreal Engine 4 behind closed doors at GDC 2012. Last year at GDC 2011 we saw the Samaritan demo which was jaw dropping graphics wise but did not showcase much physics, at least destruction wise.Read More
NVIDIA has released new GeForce 295.73 WHQL Drivers which include PhysX 9.12.0209 System Software for improved compatibility and performance in Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City. NVIDIA has posted an in-depth article about the improvements you can see in various games on the official Geforce website. There was also a PhysX System Software 9.12.0213Read More
This is old now but I never got around to posting about it back during CES 2012. During the CES 2012 Intel press conference, they showed a lot of information about the upcoming Ivy Bridge Ultrabook processor including a DX11 graphics demo showing off different games that the DX11 capable Ivy Bridge processor will beRead More
The NvidiaApexDeveloper YouTube page has uploaded a new video from the Art Gallery demo showing off some awesome Apex physics and destruction. Check it out below. For more footage of this demo in action check out the original Art Gallery Destruction Demo in UE3 using APEX Destruction with GRB’s video. Hopefully this demo becomes availableRead More
Charlie over at SemiAccurate has posted an interesting rumor that the upcoming NVIDIA Kepler, GK104 GPU will have optimizations for physics calculations in the form of dedicated PhysX hardware described as a “PhysX block.” It is unclear whether these optimizations will be actual dedicated PhysX hardware or just more shaders and other PhysX optimizations butRead More
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