Free Falling Blocks AKA Physics Based Tetris is a really interesting idea to change a game we have been playing for years. In Free Falling Blocks the Tetris blocks fall down based upon physics and then react to the bottom and the other blocks based upon physics, which is being powered by Bullet Physics. The creator of this has uploaded a video to YouTube showing this in action. There is also a video on YouTube of a PhysX powered Tetris like game which looks like it is being developed for the iPhone. Pretty interesting stuff, check out the videos below.
A demo of a physics based falling blocks game I’m developing. It looks better then in the video, and the win message at the end is off because I forgot to turn off lighting for that bit. Also the audio loses syne… but the game has impact sounds like at the beginning. The game was over 22minutes so I had to cut it down some. I will upload better videos once I make more significant changes. I have lots of enhancements still in store for this.
The pieces are manipulated by applying left/right and rotational forces. At each level the blocks gain more and more mass, thus making those forces have less effect. There is also a super gravity button that makes it fall faster which doesn’t change as the mass increases because that’s how gravity works. Because of the on restrained nature of the pieces, it’s easily possible to get them stuck in a bad position, they won’t lock in like that, and you can press r to teleport them back to the starting point (with a 100 point deduction for teleportation costs.) For most of the game I was using the super gravity and the quick lock. Without the quicklock (w) the piece will need to settle for a couple seconds before locking. In both cases it needs to be aligned closely to the grid in order to lock, you can notice a few times where the piece flashes, that’s because I tried to lock when it wasn’t lined up.
www.freefallingblocks.com will be updated as I progress.
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(),Read More
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 crashedRead More
GameTrailers.com has a couple of awesome videos from GDC 2012 where Nvidia walks through their latest PhysX technologies with a look at fur rendering PhysX Turbulence, PhysX destruction, and PhysX cloth. The most interesting new feature we have not seen before is the new PhysX rigid body solver. As described in the video, the newRead More
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
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