[ODE] hardware physics chip

[Andrew Aye]

I'm just waiting to hear about a new DirectPhysics library from MS now -)

Seriously though, the chip will have serious market penetration issues if
they actually encoded the Novodex codebase into the chip.  Physics is one of
those things that often has to be tailored on a per-game basis, so while
this would provide a minimalistic solution - it would not provide the
open-ended access needed to go beyond the "look-ma, lots of simulating
objects" first-pass google-fest.  Not to mention locking out any progress
made on new solution techniques etc.  I'm assuming as well that, given the
boards have 128MB of ram, that when they talk physics - they mean both
simulation and collision.  Opcode is a step-penetration collision system,
while some games may need to do sweep tests for some objects.   Looking
forward to seeing some real information on the chip as so far, I've only
seen the PR propaganda -)

 - Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Dominique Louis [mailto:Dominique at SavageSoftware.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:07 AM
To: ODE Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [ODE] hardware physics chip


Agreed, and those same people will be buying AI add-on cards as well
when they become available.

Dominique Louis.

Nate W wrote:
> I'll wager that the people who are buying USD$400 video cards today will
> be lining up to spend a couple hundred on add-on physics cards as soon as
> they're available.
> 


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