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% destructible. Check them out below.
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 it will stay so people can see just how awesome Havok destruction and physics is and see a glimpse into what the future of games will look like. Just imagine when a game like BF3 has real physics and destruction like you see in this video and not some scripted crap!
This video is similar to the Havok Destruction: Farmhouse Demo that we posted about a few years ago which shows a farmhouse that is completely destructible being destroyed by a tank. This new video shows off several buildings that are completely destructible and are destroyed with a tank. As the tank fires the buildings breaks apart into countless physics objects and begins to crumble based upon physics. Like the farmhouse demo, the tank can also destroy the building just by driving into it with force. The video also briefly shows off object deformation by having the tank run over metal barrels. Check out the video below.
Check out the official Havok Physics website for more information on havok physics, destruction, and their other products.
Havok Destruction Simulation:
Havok Destruction enables massive scale destruction for physical simulations including support for brittle fracture and structural deformation. With a complete solution for building destruction, level of detail can be entirely dynamic and adaptable. Havok Destruction drastically improves the visual fidelity of physical simulation and overall immersion while seamlessly interacting with destructible terrain and navigational AI. Havok Destruction’s custom in-modeler toolset gives total control over the simulation, significantly reducing the production time and cost of creating large numbers of believable objects.
I just did a clean install of Windows on my main gaming machine and don’t have the UDK setup to test this out and make a faster video right now. I am also in the process of building a sweet dedicated PhysX/Physics test rig for the site which I will be posting more info about within the next week so stay tuned.
A new Havok Physics Destruction video has been uploaded to the official Havok YouTube channel. This new video shows off how Havok Destruction can be implemented into games with the Vision Engine. This video is similar to the Havok Destruction: Farmhouse Demo that we posted about a few years ago which shows a farmhouse that is completely destructible being destroyed by a tank. This new video shows off several buildings that are completely destructible and are destroyed with a tank. As the tank fires the buildings breaks apart into countless physics objects and begins to crumble based upon physics. Like the farmhouse demo, the tank can also destroy the building just by driving into it with force. The video also briefly shows off object deformation by having the tank run over metal barrels. Check out the video below.
Now this is the future and I can’t wait to see this implemented into games and no more of the scripted destruction nonsense we have in BFBC2, Red Faction Guerrilla, and BF3! Just imagine someday when physics and destruction like this is implemented into games!
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
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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
