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.
bit-tech has some interesting and great news this morning about the future of PhysX. In a recent Q&A session, bit-tech talked to Nvidia’s director of product management for PhysX, Nadeem Mohammad, about the future of PhysX and weather the company plans to port it over to OpenCL.
This is pretty big news that Nvidia may be planning on porting PhysX over to OpenCL. This would allow ATI users to run PhysX on their cards and we would no longer have to worry about using modified drivers and dedicated Nvidia card’s for PhysX in ATI systems to run PhysX enabled games. Read the rest of the article at bit-tech.net here.
Nvidia has so far guarded its GPU PhysX technology behind a large CUDA-shaped wall, meaning that anyone who wants to use it has to use CUDA too. However, the company has revealed that this may not be the case in the future, as Nvidia is considering porting PhysX over to OpenCL; the API that’s also being used by AMD to accelerate Havok physics.
In a recent Q&A session to coincide with the launch of Nvidia’s APEX tools for games developers using PhysX, we took the opportunity to ask Nvidia’s director of product management for PhysX, Nadeem Mohammad, about whether there were any plans to port PhysX over to OpenCL.
PC Games Hardware has posted an interested article about “Games with remarkable physics effects”. the article talks about how developers choose to use physics in games to change the way they are played, along with a nice slideshow showing off games that have “Remarkable Physics Effects”. read the rest of the article here.
Good physics simulations can make a game feel more realistic and improve the gaming experience – especially if the player benefits from special effects. Pc Games Hardware takes a look at the past the present and the future of physics in games.
Physics in games
The term physics in games covers quite a big amount of things. First of all the developers of a game have to choose if the physics effect will affect gameplay or are integrated just for show. They also have to decide if they want to create their own physics engine or if they are going to use middleware. Some well known solutions are Novodex, Havok or ODE. To simulate whole forests with correct physics calculations many developers make use of Speedtree and Euphoria deals with the realistic body movements.
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.
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
Bad Behavior has blocked 315 access attempts in the last 7 days.
