Epic Games has released a cool video showing off the new features in the Unreal Engine 3. Most of the features we have already seen in the Samaritan tech demo and also shows some cool new features such as the editor and mobile development features for Android and iOS along with some pretty looking test levels we have not seen before. Unfortunately just like with the Samaritan demo, physics is not a main showcase even though the video claims to be bringing “next gen” features into focus. They do briefly show off the Apex Clothing features that we saw in the APEX Clothing on the hero character from EPIC’s Samaritan demo but not much else in the way of physics or PhysX like destruction. This is strange and disappointing as the Unreal Engine 3 now has full Apex support and we have been seeing some cool stuff being done with it like completely destructible levels which are no doubt one of the “next gen” features of games we are eagerly awaiting for. You can check out the video below.
NVIDIA’s APEX PhysX technology has been integrated into the unreal engine along with DX11 and now ships with the Unreal Development Kit. This is pretty exciting news, hopefully we start to see some cool games or at least tech demos showing off this stuff such as the GDC 2011 APEX Destruction Demo From the NVIDIA Booth. We have been seeing people play around with fracture meshes and PhysX objects but nothing on this level. Games have yet to make use of PhysX technology for anything more than some nice eye candy, hopefully this will start to change that.
* NVIDIA APEX technology enables artists to quickly generate physically simulated clothing and destructible environments. For more information on APEX, please visit: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/apex.html
The official HD(720p) video of the jaw dropping Unreal Engine 3 Samaritan Tech Demo has been uploaded to YouTube. We have been pretty excited about this demo since we read the GDC 2011 session info which states that the demo is going to show off the full NVIDIA APEX PhysX suite of artist friendly tools and runtime libraries (Clothing, Destruction, Particles and Turbulence). The video was shown behind closed doors at GDC 2011 and a shacky cam video was released of the presentation, but now the official 720p video has been uploaded to YouTube by IGN. Check it out below. We still do not have much info about the Apex PhysX features that have been implemented into the demo and unfortunately PhysX and Physics in general was not the main showcase for this demo but rather the next generation graphics. But we can tell that it looks like the main character’s clothes are simulated with PhysX and the smoke/fog that is present throughout the demo could be simulated with PhysX turbulence.
Well it is been a while since I have posted and need to get back into the swing of things, so I think posting these awesome UDK Apex PhysX destruction videos would be a good start. The NVIDIA APEX Destruction Project – Destroy Aarhus by Allingby is very impressive, an entire level that is 100%Read More
Futuremark has released a new Tech Demo showing off the next 3DMark that is going to be released sometime this year. I am not exactly sure what is going on in the demo but it has some cool particle and smoke effects. According to the press release “The visible particles and clouds of smoke inRead More
Several months ago I announced that I would be building a dedicated PhysX test system for the site to test out Hybrid PhysX configurations and do benchmarking and reviews. This past weekend I finally got around to playing around to putting it together. I got it up and running with Windows 7 and the GT430Read More
I have been excited about Hawken for awhile, not just because it looks like a great game but it will also be making heavy use of GPU PhysX as confirmed by the developers. Geforce.com has done a nice video interview with Bill Wagner of Meteor Entertainment at the recent E3 expo about the GPU PhysXRead More
I have been watching the development of Planetside 2 closely, not just because i was a huge Planetside fan when it first came out over 9 years ago but because SOE Announced PlanetSide 2 with PhysX support. We have not heard much else about it since the game with PhysX support was first announced, butRead More
INVERSION is a PS3 and XBOX 360 only title but it has caught my attention after watching the new “Inversion Powered by Havok Phyiscs and Havok Destruction” video uploaded to the official Havok Physics YouTube channel. The game makes extensive use of Havok Physics and Destruction. From the looks of it the Havok physics andRead More
Recruits is a new top-down indie shooter where “the players take charge of the Army’s newest soldiers to fight the war against their deadly Enemies.” There is a new video log from the developers showing off some cool features we would be interested in, physics and destruction! Recruits is being made with the Unreal DevelopmentRead More
A Sneak Preview trailer for Arma 3 has been released by Bohemia Interactive ahead of this weeks E3 2012. We have been excited for Arma 3 since it was announced that Arma 3 Will Implement PhysX for in-game Physics. This new trailer briefly mentions that the vehicles use PhysX simulation for the handling. Hopefully PhysXRead More
Now this is pretty cool, ARM has posted a video to YouTube from GDC 2012 showing the Havok Physics Vision Engine running on an ARM Mali GPU based Android tablet with the new Havok mobile tech demo and some cool Havok physics integration. In the video Peter Wos, a Software Engineer for Havok goes overRead More
Hawken is Adhesive Games’ upcoming free-to-play multiplayer mech combat game built with Epic Games’ Unreal Development Kit (UDK) and Unreal Engine 3. I first saw this game back when it was first announced and was very impressed with the visuals. Now I am even more excited and interested in this game with the recent newsRead More
PLA – Passion Leads Army is a Chinese Unreal Engine 3 game being developed by Giant Interactive for the Chinese military. There is a really cool DX11 benchmark included with the game that was announced by Jen-Hsun Huang at the recent NVIDIA Gaming Festival in Shanghai. The demo shows off some pretty cool cloth, particle,Read More
I posted this video a few months ago and then a few days later it went to private on YouTube for some reason, i sent a message to the HavokSimulation YouTube account with no response. Now this video of the tank destroying several buildings has been uploaded to YouTube again and hopefully this time itRead More
