BurSchnart has made a really cool video showing off the physics in CryEngine 3. The video uses “thousands of objects being hit or thrown away with Gravity Volumes” Check it out below and check his YouTube page for more cool videos.
Finally a physics video from the new CryEngine 3 SDK!!!!. This past week Crytek released the CryEngine 3 SDK free of charge for non-commercial use and since then we have been seeing some nice starter turotials but nothing with physics and destruction that can be done with it. YouTube User yohan80 has imported a Crysis 1 house into the SDK and shown off some nice physics effects. Check it out below.
For those of you that want to learn to use the CryEngine SDK i suggest checking out CyberGameArts. He is doing an entire CryEngine 3 tutorial series and posting them to YouTube.
Cryengine 3 SDK: The things that I will teach you guys!:
Crytek has released the CryEngine 3 SDK free of charge for non-commercial use. This is a really nice all-In-One game development engine that will allow you to make games based off of the CryEngine 3 engine that was used to make Crysis 2. I am pretty excited for this to be released hoping that we start to see people do some cool physics stuff with it like we have been seeing people do with Apex PhysX in the Unreal Development Kit. This seems pretty easy to use as well. I posted a few tutorials below showing how to get started with a basic level. I tried them out myself and it was very easy. I also made a cool video of the Forest tech demo that comes with the SDK showing off what you could potentially make with it. You can download the CryEngine SDK for yourself here.
Be sure to check out the Crytek CryEngine 3 page and the Crydev.net page for more information.
From the CryENGINE®3 SDK Free-of-Charge Crytek press release:
Crytek GmbH (“Crytek”) is excited to announce that they will release their latest all-in-one game development solution CryENGINE 3 free of charge for non-commercial use today. The award winning SDK provides the complete game engine to create AAA quality next generation games for PC, and includes the CryENGINE®3 Sandbox™ level editor, a production-proven, 3rd generation “What you see is what you play” (WYSIWYP) – tool designed by and for professional developers. The free toolset is available for download at crydev.net, the former crymod.com community portal that offers documentation written by the developers of the engine, a thriving community and a supplementary knowledge base for CryENGINE 3. The free CryENGINE SDK will be updated regularly, to make sure our community has access to all the advances we make to CryENGINE 3.
Cry Engine 3 Sanbox 3 editor – Physics:
This is a video walkthrough i made of the Forest tech demo that comes with the SDK. This is a pretty good example of what you could potentially make with the SDK.
CryEngine 3 SDK Forest Tech Demo HD Walkthrough:
A new series of stage demo videos showing off Crysis 2 and CryEngine 3 from GDC 2010 have surfaced on YouTube. These videos show off the different features of CryEngine 3, most interesting to us is one of the videos that shows off the physics and different types of destruction and destructible objects that the engine can put into games. We recently posted about the Crytek GDC 2010 Physics Demonstration and GDC 2010 CryEngine 3 Tech Trailer Shows Crysis 2 With Awesome Physics and Destruction. This new video goes into detail on the different types of destructible physics based objects that the engine can implement into games and the difference between destructible and deformable objects. Check out the video below.
This is pretty exciting stuff and we are keeping an eye on Crysis 2 and Cryengine 3 since it was reported that Cryengine 3 will be using an in-house custom made physics engine and will not be using any middle-ware such as Havok Physics or PhysX for the game physics. According to the Cryengine developers this will “allow the destruction of almost any object (trees, vehicles or buildings)”
[HD] Crysis 2 – CryENGINE 3 GDC 2010 – Stage Demo Part 4
January 15, 2012Leave a Comment
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
January 15, 2012Leave a Comment
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
January 15, 2012Leave a Comment
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
January 11, 2012Leave a Comment
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
January 10, 2012Leave a Comment
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
December 31, 2011Leave a Comment
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
December 24, 2011Leave a Comment
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
December 24, 2011Leave a Comment
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
December 19, 2011Leave a Comment
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
December 7, 2011Leave a Comment
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
December 7, 2011Leave a Comment
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
November 30, 2011Leave a Comment
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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