Havok Physics™
Winner of the 2008 Frontline award for Best Middleware Component
Havok Physics is the proven leader in real-time collision detection and physical simulation solutions. Havok Physics offers the fastest, most robust simulation technology available, which is why it has become the gold standard within the games industry. Havok Physics has been chosen by leading game developers in over 200 launched titles and many more in development.
Continuous Physics
Robustness is the most important requirement of any middleware component. Using innovative proprietary techniques, Havok Physics consistently provides failure free physics for its users allowing you to remove the design restrictions other solutions impose. Havok’s continuous physics is the only commercially available solution that delivers the robustness demanded by AAA games.
Scalable
Havok Physics is the fastest and most scalable physics engine available. It is extensively optimized on all today’s gaming platforms: Microsoft® Xbox 360,® Sony® PLAYSTATION®3, Nintendo® Wii,™ Microsoft® Xbox®, Sony PlayStation®2, PSP™, and the PC.
Battle Tested
Havok's support, documentation, content creation tools, and debugging and tuning suite have made Havok Physics consistently the number one physics middleware solution in games for the past ten years. It is the continued incorporation of customer feedback over this time which has made Havok Physics the most mature and trusted middleware component in the industry.
Flexible and Easy to Use
Havok Physics has been used in every genre of games, and has evolved to meet the requirements of the most demanding teams in the industry. Havok Physics is easily integrated into any game development pipeline and has been proven to work with a whole range of commercially available and in-house solutions. Havok Physics is based exclusively on customer requirements, and only targets hardware platforms customers need; as a result it does not impose any unnecessary inflexibility and is entirely open in its architecture.
Fully Featured
Havok Physics is the most fully featured solution available, providing comprehensive support for the following areas:
- Collision detection
- Dynamics and constraint solving
- Character controller
- Content creation tools for 3Ds Max®, Maya®, and XSI®
- Visual debugger, memory and performance tools
- Integrated vehicle solution
- Class reflection and serialization SDK
As with all Havok products and tools, Havok Physics is fully multithreaded and cross-platform optimized. |
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Havok Physics Product Brief