Thread: Physics integration with Ogre

I dont actually intend to use ragdolls, death animations would suffice fine, I just felt the ragdoll demo was the closest I have found. I want to use a collision mesh for collisions rather than just primitives, and this is the only example I have seen of actually loading in something similar to this. So OgreNewt can basically generate a simple collision mesh from my skeleton, or am I totally missing something?

If you use death animations, you get those funny floating corpses..

_tommo_ wrote: betajaen wrote: CrimsonGT wrote: Havok and PhysX are a bit over the top for what to you need. define "over the top" Chances are that Havok and PhysX are faster, more solid, with more features than newton... and for what concerns PhysX, good design and easy learning are one of its best features... So i don't see why use something limited just because you are a beginner Probably because as mentioned, in the...

I know, i already updated to 2.8.3 one month ago Anyway the changes have been very small and incremental, and mostly to the more-marketed CUDA soft and cloth parts... while i must admit that 2.8.3 looks a bit more stable this time.

syedhs wrote: The next best thing is to have a good Physx board community which is severely lacking. The API is pretty consistent in naming and functions, although it has that "C-ish" feel to it. The bundled documentation is pretty good, and they've put back all those tutorial and sample applications that was missing for a few releases, which is great for newbies. I don't really read the NVIDIA forums that much,...

machinimist wrote: btw, i haven't checked for a while but does physx still not support cylinder collision shapes? what is the reason for that? i think this is a bit of a joke. ode doesn't support stable cylinder collisions either and physx/novodex originally was based on ode so is there something in their technology which makes cylinders impossible to do properly or what other reason could there be that they aren't adding it?...

If you set the Ragdoll class to use convex hulls it'll generate them dynamically from the ogre mesh skelton, so it's very little work in the xml to set up. Primitives are more fiddly. If you only spawn a ragdoll once in a while it's great, but it's not as fast as the primitives when spawning the ragdoll. But unless you're doing a left for dead style game it won't matter (NOT the australian version though )

I looked into bullet at one point. I can't remember exactly why I decided against it, so you should research it yourself. I prefer something that is closed source. Open-source means the developer won't fix things when they are broken (Do it yourself, you have the source!), and there will be a bunch of different "community-supported" features that don't really work.

xavier wrote: Depends on what you want. Physics and Animation and the art tools come with the free bundle, everything else (Destruction, Cloth, Behavior, etc) is licensed (read: not free). For the most part, your typical hobby-level project will be more than overwhelmed with what you can do with just Physics and Animation. How did I not know this? *deletes all PhysX code* Time to dig into Havok @OP: Basically, if you have the time and ability...

aimmoth wrote: How is it with newton and compatibility? I really want good compatibility like Bullet. Thanks in advance! Compability with what?