Matt de Villiers, lead programmer on Stronghold 3, introduces Stronghold 3′s new physics engine (Havok) and its capabilities in Stronghold 3 Dev Diary #2. Unlike previous Stronghold games, Stronghold 3 uses a physics engine middle-ware for the destruction of the castle walls and every building in the game. The engine being used is Havok because according to Matt is is “the most robust”. Matt de Villiers then goes into detail about why they decided to do this and shows off using the wireframe view of the game how every building in the game is an individual physics object that can be completely destroyed. Check it out below and check out the official Stronghold 3 website for more information on the game. Stronghold 3 is coming to the PC on Oct 18, 2011. You can pre-purchase it on Steam.
The developers posted an interesting album on the official Stronghold 3 Facebook page called Physics fun with Trebs that shows some crazy physics. Check them out below-
Sony Ericsson and Havok have announced the availability of Havok’s product suite to Android developers, optimized for the Sony Ericsson’s revolutionary Xperia™ PLAY. Havok reigns as the preferred tools and interactive software partner to the world’s best developers. As part of its overall support for the Android platform, Havok has a build of its product line optimised for the Xperia™ PLAY that is ready for licensing by Android developers.
A pretty awesome video has been uploaded to YouTube showing a Havok Physics demonstration that was shown at the 2010 Intel Developer Forum in San Fransisco. The video shows some nice Havok Physics based Cloth simulation and destruction physics effects. The video shows the Havok Cloth simulation with a side-by-side comparison showing what cloth on a character would look like without Havok Physics and then with Havok Physics simulation. The end of the video shows off the destruction effects where a train is shown going over a completely destructible bridge that is destroyed with a rocket launcher. Check out the video below. the second video shows the start of the demo with Cloth Physics on an Ogre like character.
Havok Physics Demonstration at IDF San Francisco 2010:
Some awesome new Havok Physics destruction and cloth demos have been shown off at GDC 2010. The first video is showing Havok Destruction in action where pretty much everything can be destroyed. Stone and wood can be fractured, and metal such as a barrel can be deformed as if it were real and entire buildings and structures can be destroyed. The video shows how with Havok Physics Destruction you can create truly “Dynamic Game Environments”. The destructible bridge demo we recently posted about in the “Awesome Video Game Physics Destruction Videos You Need to Watch” is also showed at a different angle in this demo video to show off “Large Scale Destruction”. The video finishes up with “High Fidelity Building Destruction” showing how you can make buildings that can be completely destroyed or have certain sections blown away.
This is definitely awesome stuff, anyone that has been playing Battlefield: Field Bad Company 2, knows how destructible environments really change the way we play games and add an all new wow factor, imagine in the future when physics based destruction is used more and more in games.
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
This is old now but I never got around to posting about it back during CES 2012. During the CES 2012 Intel press conference, they showed a lot of information about the upcoming Ivy Bridge Ultrabook processor including a DX11 graphics demo showing off different games that the DX11 capable Ivy Bridge processor will beRead More
The NvidiaApexDeveloper YouTube page has uploaded a new video from the Art Gallery demo showing off some awesome Apex physics and destruction. Check it out below. For more footage of this demo in action check out the original Art Gallery Destruction Demo in UE3 using APEX Destruction with GRB’s video. Hopefully this demo becomes availableRead More
Charlie over at SemiAccurate has posted an interesting rumor that the upcoming NVIDIA Kepler, GK104 GPU will have optimizations for physics calculations in the form of dedicated PhysX hardware described as a “PhysX block.” It is unclear whether these optimizations will be actual dedicated PhysX hardware or just more shaders and other PhysX optimizations butRead More
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