ATI's Take On Physics @ FiringSquad

Vikingod · Mar 24, 2006, 02:00 PM

Earlier this week NVIDIA made quite a splash with their announcement that they were partnering with Havok to bring physics acceleration to their latest GeForce 6/7 GPUs. According to the PR, through Havok’s GPU-accelerated “effects physics” SDK dubbed Havok FX, Havok plans to use Shader Model 3.0 GPUs to simulate “the interactions of thousands of colliding rigid bodies, a fundamental technique of physics computation seen in today's latest games. It's now possible to compute the components of friction, collisions, gravity, mass, and velocity, that form the basis of rigid body physics.” NVIDIA made it pretty clear that Havok FX won’t affect gameplay objects, rather objects in the environment that don’t affect gameplay.
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Mar 24, 2006, 02:00 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	ATI's Take On Physics @ FiringSquad Earlier this week NVIDIA made quite a splash with their announcement that they were partnering with Havok to bring physics acceleration to their latest GeForce 6/7 GPUs. According to the PR, through Havok’s GPU-accelerated “effects physics” SDK dubbed Havok FX, Havok plans to use Shader Model 3.0 GPUs to simulate “the interactions of thousands of colliding rigid bodies, a fundamental technique of physics computation seen in today's latest games. It's now possible to compute the components of friction, collisions, gravity, mass, and velocity, that form the basis of rigid body physics.” NVIDIA made it pretty clear that Havok FX won’t affect gameplay objects, rather objects in the environment that don’t affect gameplay. ___________ Read More / Source: FiringSquad