Havok Physics

The fastest most robust real time CPU based rigid body collision detection and dynamics SDK.
Built from decades of collaboration with game developers at the cutting edge.

Build your vision

Havok Physics brings your vision of a physical game world to life, whether that is a vast detailed open world or a finely crafted puzzle.

Author using your own tools or using Havok’s modeler plugins, and quickly stream your Havok assets into your game at runtime.

With Havok Physics as the core representation of your game world, your game gains a rich feature set empowering all your game systems to achieve more.

Run with confidence

Havok Physics is a mature battle tested engine, the driving force powering hundreds of shipped games.

Rely on its high performance at scale, empowering you to achieve more per frame from your CPU physics budget.

Rely on its high-quality behavior, empowering you to spend your time building your game instead of wrestling with physics quirks.

Fit to your game

Every game is unique and has its own requirements, which is why Havok Physics is designed to be flexible and adaptable to a broad range of use cases.

The SDK includes a range of examples for common use cases like characters, ragdolls, and vehicles, and also provides many hooks into the engine, empowering you to customize its behavior to your own needs.

Tune and debug

Whether you need to analyze the performance or behavior of Havok Physics in your game or capture a scenario to send to us for additional support, Havok Physics tightly integrates with the Havok Visual Debugger tool to empower you with rich capturing, profiling and debugging abilities.

Many of these utilities can be directly integrated into your own in-game debug tools too.

Key Features

Battle tested collision detection

  • Most robust, fully featured, and battleā€“tested game collision detection technology available
  • Mature, optimized and flexible collision detection pipeline
  • Continuous collision detection for environments, characters, and vehicles
  • Native support for large world coordinates

Complete production ready tool chain

  • Extensible asset conditioning pipeline with full Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya plugā€“in support
  • Built on advanced reflection and serialization systems
  • Advanced versioning system ensures backward compatibility support for all data and assets
  • Runtime ready asset formats enable super-fast streaming, mapping directly from disk

Robust dynamics and constraint solving

  • Stable and robust, highly optimized contact and constraint solving, even for large game worlds
  • Supports a large variety of different constraint types, including solutions for ragdolls and vehicles
  • Constraint motors, customizable constraints, and breakable constraints
  • Multi-body direct solver for complex articulated systems
  • Lightweight “Physics Particles” system for super-fast debris and rigid body effects

Built for game developers

  • 100% deterministic behavior across platforms and build configurations
  • Fast world cloning for rollback and prediction
  • Extensive profiling and debugging tools
  • Library of utilities targeting common game use cases

Customer success Havok Physics

ā€œWe knew early on that HELLDIVERSā„¢ 2 needed great physics and Havok was the obvious choice for us. Besides their solid products, what really pleased us was their amazing support staff that helped us through thick and thin.ā€

Peter Lindgren, Technical Director, Arrowhead Studios

Havok Physics-powered

A selection of games powered by Havok Physics

age of mythology: retold

Age of Mythology: Retold

Armored Core VI

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

Assassins Creed III Remastered

Assassin’s Creed III Remastered

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Beyond Two Souls

Beyond: Two Souls

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty Modern warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Crackdown 3

Crackdown 3

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Death Stranding

Death Stranding

Demonā€™s Souls

Demonā€™s Souls

Destiny 2

Destiny 2

Detroit Become Human

Detroit: Become Human

Doom Eternal

Doom Eternal

Elden Ring

Elden Ring

Far cry new dawn

Far Cry New Dawn

FFXVI box cover

FINAL FANTASY XVI
Ā© SQUARE ENIX

Nintendo Game Builder Garage promotional image showing a node network

Game Builder Garage
Ā© Nintendo

Gears 5 TC Gears of wars

Gears 5

Gears Tactics

Gears Tactics

Generation Zero

Generation Zero

Heavy Rain The Origami Killer

Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer

Helldivers 2 promtional image

Helldivers 2

Hyper Scape

Hyper Scape

Luigiā€™s Mansion 3

Luigi’s Mansion 3
Ā© Nintendo

Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope ingame screenshot

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Ā© 2022 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Rabbids, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are registered or unregistered trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Nintendo properties are licensed to Ubisoft Entertainment by Nintendo. SUPER MARIO characters Ā© Nintendo.怀Trademarks are property of their respective owners. Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo.

Monster Hunter World Iceborne

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Mortal Kombat 1

Mortal Kombat 1

Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit

Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit
Ā© Nintendo

Nintendo Switch Sports promotional of two people playing volleyball

Nintendo Switch Sports
Ā© Nintendo

PokƩmon LEGENDS Arceus in game screenshot

PokƩmon LEGENDS: Arceus
Ā©2022 PokĆ©mon. Ā©1995-2022 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.

PokƩmon Scarlet in game screenshot

PokƩmon Scarlet
Ā©2022 PokĆ©mon. Ā©1995-2022 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.

Pokemon Violet in game screenshot

PokƩmon Violet
Ā©2022 PokĆ©mon. Ā©1995-2022 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.

Rage 2

Rage 2

Saints Row 4

Saints Row IV

Saints Row The Third - The Full Package

Saints Row: The Third – The Full Package

Shadow Arena

Shadow Arena

Snowrunner

SnowRunner

splatoon3 in game screenshot

Splatoon 3
Ā© Nintendo

Starfield

Starfield

Stormland

Stormland

Strangelets

Strangelets

Super Mario Bros Wonder in game screenshot

Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Ā© Nintendo

The Crew Motorfest

The Crewā„¢ Motorfest

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Ā© Nintendo

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in game screenshot

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Ā© Nintendo

The Tomorrow Children Phoenix Edition in game screenshot

The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition

Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Breakpoint

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint

Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Siege

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

Tom Clancy's The Division 2

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

Wolfenstein Cyberpilot

Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot

Wolfenstein Youngblood

Wolfenstein: Youngblood

World War Z

World War Z

WWE 2K24 box art featuring Cody Rhodes

WWE 2K24

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