LL is finally updating the Havok physics engine in Second Life. Weee! I feel like newbie again. I spent many hours tinkering with the physics when I first logged into SL almost two years ago.
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LL is finally updating the Havok physics engine in Second Life. Weee! I feel like newbie again. I spent many hours tinkering with the physics when I first logged into SL almost two years ago.
This new update is pretty impressive so far - still only on the beta grid tho. The speed improvements are quite noticeable, and the Sphere prim is especially interesting now that the .01 meter gap from the old system is gone. Spheres can actually collide and rest against other objects now.
Even for a beta test the system seems pretty stable at one point I had roughly 1,500 physics enabled boxes in a huge pile. The sim sort of hiccuped for a moment, but then went about it's business like nothing was happening. :)
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I got excited for a min then I saw the age of this vid. The current gap is 0.1m, so I guess they didn't stick with this system for long.
The physics performance looks great on that video....it's such a shame that they keep throttling it back all the time. One day we will lose physics all together I guess :(
Half Life 2 uses the Source Engine, which uses the Havok2 physics engine. Don't listen to the other comments.
I've developed for both Second Life and Source, there's a few noticeable differences between the two physics engines. They're hard to describe, but most of the difference between Havok2 and Havok4 deals mostly with how objects act when they collide with each other.
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The physics performance looks great on that video....it's such a shame that they keep throttling it back all the time. One day we will lose physics all together I guess :(
Thanks!
I've developed for both Second Life and Source, there's a few noticeable differences between the two physics engines. They're hard to describe, but most of the difference between Havok2 and Havok4 deals mostly with how objects act when they collide with each other.
jk
Shows your ignorance.