drunkenmaster said "what you've just described is a an event that can be scripted, almost certainly is, can be done on any physics engine, the difference is with physx the calculations would be longer, more processor intensive and therefore faster on hardware, none of which makes it better."
Sure it could be scripted but it would look terrible far worse than a real physics engine.
Are you just making stuff up again? Do you have any evidence at all that PhysX calculations would be longer and more processor intensive over the same calculations in another API?
Did it ever accrue to you that PhysX can do the same level of accuracy as the other API's only it does them in hardware so it's faster.
no it didn't, other APi's use less accuracy as there is completely and utterly no need for anything close to realistic. The cpu power needed for incredibly basic physics engines is minimal, as, lets see, proven by every game that uses lots of physics effects that aren't based on the physx engine. Where as every game that uses physx does smeg all and somehow is slower than other games with better physx engines, and is only speed up with physx hardware. The logical conclusion is that..... the physx hardware is made to do more complex calculations faster. THe trouble is, we don't need more complex calculations.
Oh well, Pottseys in the thread, he'll spout on about the great upcoming games that will use physx properly. Except NOW the excuse is that it needs more intergrating, needs more time and more people to use it, 3 years ago the excuse was the games out now are crap but game X due in Y months will be fantastic, you'll see. Yet game, after game, after game comes and goes with no one remotely interested in the physx of it.
How many YEARS can you claim I'm wrong, claim you are right, and have zero proof, despite what most people seeing is that physx was dead before it started, it doesn't do anything useful and the 1% of gamers(i'm being incredibly generous there) that think it will be useful constantly talk about the next big game.
My question about what in that demo needed super accelerating was to the other guy, you can not use my question, to then question my point incorrectly. My entire point was nothing, at all, in that demo needed acceleration to be done.
What exactly in that game needed physx, generic litter blowing on a roof where there would be no litter, wow, immersion, realism, yay. or more token physx effects that offer zero realism, actually harm the immersion but somehow get the physx guys all hot and bothered.
But whoopdedoo, another physx game that adds pointless effects, that don't help immersion , while all that time spent adding the pointless effects would have been better used making the actual game remotely good. Like actually appearing to get relatively close to the things you jump on to, which, you don't in this game.
lets see, physx game number 228 passes by without a lick of useful stuff in it.
Noticed that all the physx games that properly use physx, have zero gameplay, are generally incredibly short, like, their own game, because they spend so much time on physics, they forget about, story, gameplay and graphics.
