Hard Reset is a new PC exclisuve FPS from a new Polish game development studio called The Flying Wild Hog. What is great about this game is that it makes extensive use of the Havok physics engine with their own game engine called “Road Hog”. In a recent interview with PC Gamer, the developer talks about why they chose to use their own engine with Havok physics and not the Unreal Engine 3 with PhysX -”We wanted to tailor the Road Hog engine for the kind of game that we wanted to make. The idea was to have everything possible dynamic, so we are making extensive use of Havok physics. The graphics engine has fully dynamic lighting. We don’t use pre-rendered lightmaps. Every light is dynamic; it can casts shadows or be shot down. It’s just not possible with Unreal Engine 3 to run it smoothly on low-end PCs, as Road Hog does.” Check out the interview here. HardOCP.com also did a pretty nice Hard Reset Gameplay Performance Review.
Here is what the Physics settings in the game look like:
Hard Reset is available on Steam along with a nice demo you can download and play for free to test out the physics for yourself.
In the only remaining human city of Bezoar, Major Fletcher, an Army Combat Veteran and soldier of the CLN, is dragged into a conflict between two of mankind’s greatest enemies. He is to discover that nothing is what it seems to be.
Hard Reset is an action-packed, single-player shooter for the PC. With over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies, great weapon variety and a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting, Hard Reset is sure to shake up the shooter scene.
Key features:
A haunting cyberpunk / dark sci-fi setting
Fast-paced, old-school shooter gameplay
Hordes of enemies to destroy
Epic boss fights
A deep, experience-based weapon upgrade system
High-fidelity graphics with full dynamic lighting
Extensive use of physics and dynamic environments
I made and uploaded a little video from the Hard Reset demo showing off the physics. Check it out.
Bit-tech has done a really nice interview with Ageia co-founder by Manju Hegde, who now works for AMD to talk about the current state and future of GPU Physics in gaming. As the co-founder of Ageia, Hedge had hoped that GPU Physics would change the way we play games and it’s mechanics, unfortunately this has not happened and only added eye candy to games. Bit-tech in the interview talks with Hedge about why this has happened and how the future of gpu physics support in games might play out. Read the rest of the article here.
Pretty cool stuff. I came across this video today on YouTube titled “Ultimate Physics Props for Unity“. This is of course for the Unity 3D engine. Hopefully we start to see more games take advantage of and implement physics like this.
Ultimate Physics Props for Unity is a complete props package for any FPS shooter game (and not only) created with Unity 3D. All the props are destructible. This video shows off the default crate. More content in this asset store pack : barrels, large crates, containers, etc.
This is pretty cool, somebody made a game for a school project with the Unity 3D engine and physics that is a castle that can be completely destroyed by shooting cannon balls at it.
From YouTube:
Student project of the Hogeschool Leiden minor Media&ICT.
A real wooden catapult was made during this project, connected to a computer using an Arduino.
Using our game, the user could use the catapult to launch virtual amminution inside the game world, in order to besiege a castle. The game focused on realistic destruction of the castle and an impressive and interesting user experience using smoke, fire and explosions.
For more information see our other videos or visit http://www.digipult.nl
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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