[ODE] Havok and NVIDIA present Havok FX at GDC 2006

[Mohsin Hasan]

Does Ageia have a plan to expose their PhysX GPU to other physics engines so
they can also accelerate their engines on hardware? This whole thing sounds
a lot like 3DFX/Glide. But we all know it didn't last long. I believe PhysX
will have more market acceptance if other physics engines also take
advantage of it. Nearly all AAA games these days have one physics engine or
the other. If they all support the hardware, people will have to buy it. 

Btw, has anyone tried offloading ODE calculations to GPU yet?

Mohsin

|-----Original Message-----
|From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org] On Behalf Of gl
|Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:14 PM
|To: ode at q12.org
|Subject: Re: [ODE] Havok and NVIDIA present Havok FX at GDC 2006
|
|Well, I've been out of gaming for a while, so I don't know if this is still
|true, but GPU makers were always bitching about how most games are CPU
|limited, and so often GPU power goes to waste.  If you can use some GPU for
|non-interactive physics content (particles etc), then that's a nice bit of
|next-gen (if you will) optional eye-candy to chew up that leftover.
|--
|gl