Let's play with game physics engines!

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http://www.meqon.com/downloadarea/downloadarea.php

Reportedly, this is the physics engine that 3d Realms just licensed for Duke Nukem Forever. If you go to the website, you can d/l some fun demos. Knock boxes around, spill figures, all sorta stuff.

FUN! with ragdoll physics!

http://www.meqon.com/downloadarea/meqdemos1.4.jpg

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Havok: (though they don't have downloadable demos anymore)

http://www.havok.com/products/index.php

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

'just licensed'? 'JUST'? isn't DNF already a hundred years late?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

DNF the gaming communities joke that never dies.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

saw the ragdoll stuff as a siggraph presentation a few years ago. do they realistically model joints?

DNF? i'm still waiting for Psyclapse and Bandersnatch 8) and Mutant Chickens or whatever it was Matthew Smith was meant to be writing.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

DNF will never be finished.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not called "Forever" for no reason.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1999/19991103l.jpg

(from 1999)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

hotlinking eh

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So has anyone actually played with these physics demos? They're GREAT! Throwing balls at pyramids of boxes = giant fun, somehow. Even better, is dragging the boxes out of the pyrimid one by one - it's like a realistic virtual jenga!

I suspect that 90% of what would be fun about the finished DNF (if it ever arrived) is already available here anyway.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Damm I thought this was going to link to one of my favorite sites of all time. A digital filter manufactuer (and an analogue one for those with spare capacitors) website based at a UK university.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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