Physics Wars

#1 Hey guys,

Any feedback on this?...

Thanks

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#2 I was waiting for the devs to answer so that you could get more precise feedback.

- is it possible; yes.
- will it run at decent fps; that depends on the graphics card in use.
- is this feasible for a profit making game in this day and age, while using T3D; possible but not likely due to target demographic.

The PhysX implementation is faster than the Bullet implementation in T3D. Unless you plugin a physics lib on your own, then I would choose PhysX for this project.

I suggest using simple collision volumes as much as possible(BOXes - an obvious thing). You would still have to target high end cards simply because T3D is a budget engine...and budget engines don't push out commercial engine performance levels. You may even need to specifically target physics hardware(think Nvidia cards 480+ and up for better performance for something like this).

- Good luck and let us know how development goes!

P.S. I have used: Havok, PhysX, Newton, Bullet, & a few others in commercial development projects. I really don't have a favorite.

P.S.S. One good thing about making a game like this is getting the work done now..so that as cards become better and better, you can release and re-release the game with different eye candy. So I say; make-it and re-make-it and repeat!

#3 Thanks for the response. Oddly, I have an ATI 5850 card in my machine, which brings up another question... does PhysX have an issue running on non-NVidia cards?

Thanks Again...

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#4 I suggest you google and read..

www.tomshardware.com/news/phyx-ageia-x87-sse-physics,10826.html

#5 So, seeing as I have an ATI card that would make devloping with PhysX impossible... correct?.

#6 no. It would simply not perform as well because the calculations would move from a dedicated portion of an Nvidia GPU, to the system CPU.

#7 Okay, well do you guys have any recomendations for the remaining physics engines: Havok, Bullet, Newton, others?... And is there any Torque deocumentation on how to integrate these engines?

#8 Bullet works rather well with Torque, but as already noted the implementation of it in Torque3D isn't as fast as PhysX -- might not be much of a tradeoff though given your performance concern over the usage of PhysX with an ATI GPU.