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Cool physics video

Would be great to see some decent water physics in games... its one of the things that always breaks the immersion for me seeing some rubbish awkwardly used sprites or static meshes with a scrolling texture.
 
It's Softimage ICE. Or at least it looks like it is going to be a commercial pluggin using/based off Softimage ICE. ICE is a node based enviroment in Autodesk Softimage for creating effects and animation, in some ways a lote like SideFX Software's Houdini. While ICE is multi-threaded, I don't think it is hardware accelerated by a graphics card (I could be wrong). There stopped being the small studio priced XSI Foundation (XSI renamed Softimage when bought by Autodesk) a few versions ago, so I have not used anything other than 30 day demo's since version 6 to be able to answer any more about it. Hopefully more exciting thing like this will be shown/announced at Siggraph next week.
Fun times, and I can't wait for my ZBrush 4 upgrade ;-)

Simon
 
With GPU acceleration and atleast a 200 series dedicated to physics you can get quite a way towards those kinda affects. Tho not as smooth (obviously pre-rendered) as those vids.
 
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