Phymec is making some cool physics tools for Bullet Physics and Blender to enable some awsome fracture and destruction effects. Two awesome videos showing this off have been uploaded to YouTube. The first shows off the creation of the fracture objects in Blender and the newer video is an awesome collection of fracture objects being destroyed. Check them out below and check out his YouTube page for more awesome videos. This is some pretty awesome stuff. I can’t wait until we see this level of destruction and physics in games. Imagine Battlefield 3 with every objects being destructible like this.
All scenes rendered using the 100% OpenCL (xPU) accelerated SmallLuxGPU v2 (PathGPU2) render engine in SLG Live! mode, typically @ 20 secs/HD frame, no delay between frames. Only de-noise in post.
Glass on ground flicker rendering issue is likely simply due to coincident surfaces; unfortunately I didn’t notice until after it rendered, sorry.
(BTW David Bucciarelli has created a real-time OpenCL path tracing game, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9uWYaiP3s)
All done on the same old home PC running Windows 7 64-bit on Intel i7 720 CPU and two AMD HD4890 GPUs.
It looks like physics in the web browser is here to stay. We just posted about how XML3D Physics will bring realistic Physics to Web browsers now i just came across this cool demo showing off Bullet Physics working inside a web browser in this case Chrome 15+ check it out here. Hopefully soon we start to see some cool browser based games that implement this technology.
The Native Client module executed in this page runs a basic C++ Bullet Physics simulation.
Use the mouse wheel for camera zoom and left mouse button to pick and drag objects. The test embeds a Blender 3D .blend file and it can also load a local .blend file. This is an unmodified version of the Bullet C++ library using the premake build system. See the source code at http://github.com/erwincoumans/experiments.
Check in the Chrome “About Box” that you are using version 15 or later (if not see http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel)
We have posted before about some cool Minecraft Physics mods like the Minecraft with jBullet Physics and the concept video showing off Minecraft + Bullet Physics which are really cool. Now Benjamin “begla” Glatzel has started working on a new “Minecraft-like open source project,” that has implemented Bullet Physics for some cool physics effects on the individual blocks. Check out the video below showing it off and be sure to check out the official Blockmania website.
Blockmania is an open source project started by Benjamin “begla” Glatzel to research procedural terrain generation and efficient rendering techniques in Java using the LWJGL. The engine uses a block-based voxel-like approach as seen in Minecraft.
Blockmania (Minecraft-like open source project) – Waving grass and Bullet Physics integration:
Now this is pretty cool. There are some new technology preview videos out showing off the different physics features of the new Momentum 2.5 engine which is a high speed multi-physics simulator that uses Bullet Physics and can be used with Autodesk Softimage 2010, 2011 and 2012. Pretty cool stuff. Find out more about it at the Exocortex Technologies Momentum page and check out the video below showing off Fracture physics.
This video demonstrates the new dynamic fracturing options for the Momentum 2.5 update.
Exocortex, in collaboration with Helge Mathee, is pleased to announce that Momentum 2.0, the ultimate high speed multi-physics simulator, is now immediately available for Autodesk Softimage 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Exocortex Momentum 2.0, because it relies on the industrial strength Bullet physics framework, provides robust support for Rigid Bodies, Soft Bodies, Cloth, Ropes, Constraints, Interactions and Attachments.
Ever since we saw the Glowball PhysX demo and the Floating Castle Physics Demo running on Tegra 3 powered tablets we have been pretty excited about physics on Tegra powered devices. Back in November NVIDIA announced the released of their new Quad-Core mobile Tegra 3 chip that uses “four CPU cores and its new GeForceRead More
I know that Batman Arkham City has been out for awhile now and this is old news but as I have been extremely busy with work and finishing up school I never got a chance to post these. These are some cool Batman Arkham City PhysX comparison on/off videos from both EVGA and YouTube userRead More
Krishna Kumar – YouTube user krishx007 who runs gfxguru.net has made a pretty cool physics/PhysX demo level with Unity 3D called Physics Wonderland. The level is basically a huge playground with PhysX objects that you can destroy and play around with to show off the different PhysX features in Unity 3D. Check it out belowRead More
The Game Developers Conference 2012 is going to have a session that really interests us. The “Physics for Games Programmers” session/tutorial is going to cover the “tools and techniques developers should know when implementing physics in their games.” According to the information on the GDC 2012 site, the session will take place on Tuesday, MarchRead More
With all of the excitement about rumored hardware being used in the next-generation consoles, some very disappointing news has come today. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sony has no plans to unveil the Sony Playstation 4 at this years E3 and is going to stick with the 10-year life cycle plan. If thisRead More
Here are some cool physics videos that have been uploaded to YouTube over the past week. Cryengine 3 Tornado Physics by club4ghz UDK – Destructible objects and Physics! by Shotbix07 Ice Engine Destruction Test by LordOfTheBytes
I came across a few cool Havok physics videos on YouTube. YouTube user kosteckip has made a pretty cool Castle Siege type demo using PhysX and Havok physics with physics based water, cloth, and destruction. Meanwhile, the official Havok Physics YouTube channel has uploaded a series of Havok Simulation videos and one interesting video showsRead More
Maximum PC has a nice article up about the top game engines being used to create today’s games. Along with the engines they also pointed out the top Middleware being used and PhysX and Havok were listed as the top physics Middleware. Check out the entire article here. From Gamers, Start Your Engines! 6 TopRead More
Phymec is making some cool physics tools for Bullet Physics and Blender to enable some awsome fracture and destruction effects. Two awesome videos showing this off have been uploaded to YouTube. The first shows off the creation of the fracture objects in Blender and the newer video is an awesome collection of fracture objects beingRead More
An interesting rumor has surfaced this past week that Microsoft is developing two next-gen Xbox 720 consoles. According to the rumor on TECHSPOT, Microsoft “is said to be developing an entry-level system as well as a true next-generation hardcore gaming console.” What is important to us for the future of physics is the reports thatRead More
I posted about this awesome level several months ago – Some Cool NVIDIA APEX Physics Tests Done with the UDK now mfsksa, who is the creator of this level, has given me the UDK files required to play the Apex PhysX test level he made. I made a cool video showing it off some moreRead More
Ever since we posted the Battlefield 3 Physics and Destruction Videos with the BF3 destruction video showing the Antenna in Caspian Border coming down we have been wondering how to do this or when it would be allowed through a patch. Today we have learned through an awesome YouTube Video that the main Antenna canRead More
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