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Havok joints Microsoft

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Havok joins Microsoft

Not quite sure where to put this but the graphics card section seemed like a good as place as any.

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/10/02/havok-to-join-microsoft/

Interesting, I'm a little surprised but hopefully it will my my work life a little easier at least :p. As a gamer I hope the idea of hardware based physics with Havok and OpenCL becomes a possibility again.
 
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It's in the new rainbow six and it works great..
I laughed so hard other day, I smashed open the floor leaving a gab between the flooring, I through a nade hoping for it to go down into the room under me but instead I missed and it went between the floor boards rolling down towards end of room exploding it looks superb.
 
It makes scene for microsoft, they could make it part of Direct X and or temp Devs to work with the Xbox one with a "Free" physics engine.
 
shankly1985 said:
It's in the new rainbow six and it works great..
I laughed so hard other day, I smashed open the floor leaving a gab between the flooring, I through a nade hoping for it to go down into the room under me but instead I missed and it went between the floor boards rolling down towards end of room exploding it looks superb.
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You can make some great tech but that doesn't mean the developers will make great use of it lol.
 
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KillBoY_UK said:
You can makes some great tech but doesn't mean the developers will make great use of it lol
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So true. I after admit ubisoft have a real gem with rainbow six I feel. I was very surprised how the game reacted to the nade and the gab between flooring I don't think I have seen that before.
 
shankly1985 said:
So true. I after admit ubisoft have a real gem with rainbow six I feel. I was very surprised how the game reacted to the nade and the gab between flooring I don't think I have seen that before.
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Being in games middleware I've seen some horrid use of my works technology and of course some brilliant indigenous uses :) the same is true for Havok and Physx :)
 
Loved Havoc since it was used in Half Life 2.
And still think no other game integrated physics that well, without ever making it feel like a gimmick.
 
This is actually significant since Havok was always a very good alternative to physx. With MS it's obviously been acquired to be used in Xbox One /DX12 games and their cloud gaming. MS say they will still license to devs but if the costs are raised then it could be bad for gaming since a lot of the non-physx games used havok. Havok is not as demanding on hardware unlike physx afaik.
 
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Havok is great. Pretty certain it was used in Fallout 3.

Funny when it freaks out. Seeing a body fly up into the sky and spazz around for a few seconds is always fun :D
 
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