Havok Physics

Build with confidence

Our battle-tested, optimized runtime—performant and robust over all edge-cases—is the product of more than two decades of continuous investment and our experience working with the top game studios in the world. Validated by the best of the best, Havok Physics can handle whatever your team throws at it.

Focus on what matters most

Extend and customize components to match your unique gameplay requirements. Our flexible API and world-class support enable developers to push possibilities as far as their imaginations can go.

Simplify production

With export support for familiar modelers and visual debugging and profiling tools for out-of-the-box diagnostics, artists and developers can get what they need at the click of a button—throughout the production pipeline.

Technical details

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 industry-leading solutions for ragdolls and vehicles
Includes constraint motors, customizable constraints, and breakable constraints
Lightweight “Physics Particle” feature supports super-fast debris and rigid body effects

Battle-tested Collision Detection

Most robust, fully featured, and battle–tested collision detection technology available
Optimized and flexible collision detection pipeline
Continuous detection for environments, characters, and vehicles

Complete production-ready tool chain

Extensible asset conditioning pipeline with full Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya plug–in support
Built on advanced reflection and serialization systems
Advanced versioning system ensures backward compatibility support for all data and assets

Visual debugger

Displays and records in–depth profiling and debugging data across all supported platforms
Fine–grained, real–time multi–threaded performance data shows exactly where cycles are spent across all cores of the target system
Data can be recorded and sent for analysis by dedicated Havok support engineers

Customer success Havok Physics

“The world-class performance and robustness of the Havok Physics engine was a key part of Hyper Scape’s pipeline to get 100 players in a full urban environment to run smoothly on every platform we support.”

Thomas Felix, Tech Director, Hyper Scape

Havok Physics-powered

A selection of games powered by Havok Physics

Assassin’s Creed III Remastered

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Beyond: Two Souls

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Crackdown 3

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Death Stranding

Demon’s Souls

Destiny 2

Detroit: Become Human

Doom Eternal

Far Cry New Dawn

Gears 5

Gears Tactics

Generation Zero

Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer

Hyper Scape

Luigi’s Mansion 3
© 2019 Nintendo

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Mortal Kombat 11

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit
© 2019 Nintendo

Rage 2

Saints Row IV

Saints Row: The Third – The Full Package

Shadow Arena

SnowRunner

Stormland

Strangelets

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot

Wolfenstein: Youngblood

World War Z

WWE 2K20

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