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Epic Physics

by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 25, 2001 11:10am PDT

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HomeLAN Fed received word that Epic Games will be incorporating a new physics engine into the Unreal engine. According to Epic's Mark Rein "The integration of Karma's real physics adds an extra dimension to the Unreal Engine and we believe that the combined engine can be used to create games of almost any type. You want to build a basketball game? Unreal Engine gives you the court and Karma gives you the ball."

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Good, no more "skating" around the levels or catapulting yourself high into the air off of a rising platform like in Deck16. What I'd like to see next is some initiative in the collision-detection field; specifically, taking the "box" out of "bounding box".

Oct 25, 2001 11:14am PDT

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Is this the engine that makes UT fun?

Oct 25, 2001 5:43pm PDT

Is this the engine that makes UT fun? : assin9

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I wonder when someone will get the idea to do a Game Acceleration Card for handling physics, AI, hit detection, trajectories, and the like.

This would be along the same idea as a GPU, where the main CPU and mememory could be used for even more complex and realistic game state processing, prediction, and the like, while the GAC could offload the specialized tasks with chips designed for the task at hand.

Of course you would need an API for the interface and industry acceptance, with the "software" implementation done well enough so that deveopers would be willing to use it instead of rolling their own...

Oct 25, 2001 3:52pm PDT

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I wonder when someone will get the idea to do a Game Acceleration Card for handling physics, AI, hit dete... : TargetBoy
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- Might have happened, had DirectEngine taken off... (originally, back in the Shogo days, Monolith was wr... : drazz

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I wonder which game is going to have this. I think that Unreal Warfare and Unreal Championship are too far in development to have this kind of a change implemented, but then again Daikatana moved from the Q1 engine to Q2, and DNF went from Q2 to Unreal Tech. Seeing this in Unreal 2 sounds like a sure thing, though.

Oct 25, 2001 12:14pm PDT

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I wonder which game is going to have this. I think that Unreal Warfare and Unreal Championship are too f... : the archvile
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- Now they have to start DNF over from the beginning so they can use Unreal2 with KARMA! : jidar
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  How is it too far along in development of UW to have it put in but it will definitely be put in U2? UW i... : Do_Or_Die
  - oh, sorry; I got confused. Too many Unreal games in production. : the archvile

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Unreal Engine gives you the court and Karma gives you the ball

Shouldn't Karma be giving us the gravity, mass, and velocity that determines the ball's Behavior?

Oct 25, 2001 11:43am PDT

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Unreal Engine gives you the court and Karma gives you the ball Shouldn't Karma be giving us the gravit... : psychobean
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  /me slaps Psychobean with his balls. Engine by Unreal. Physics by Karma. Ripe love spuds by Shamble... : Shambler
  - You shedded your pubes on me! to make this on-topic: And the floated to the ground at the proper vel... : psychobean

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A first person football game or basketball game would be SWEET.

Oct 25, 2001 12:03pm PDT

A first person football game or basketball game would be SWEET. : Ocelot

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NOT FIRST

Oct 25, 2001 11:11am PDT

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- * D E N I E D ! * Well I'd say this is a good thing - Unreal physics weren't as comfortable as they c... : Shambler

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Excellent. I'm assuming the old physics engine will now be regulated to just modeling figure skating?

Oct 25, 2001 11:18am PDT

Excellent. I'm assuming the old physics engine will now be regulated to just modeling figure skating? : jidar

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This is how it should be. I hate it when game programmers try to model physics and fuxor it all up. Wonder what the royalties for this are though ...

Oct 25, 2001 11:15am PDT

This is how it should be. I hate it when game programmers try to model physics and fuxor it all up. Won... : Dread Pirate Roberts