Soft-Body Physics Getting Me Hot and Bothered

new burnout

When the fuck are we going to get a game with AI that isn't shit. Physics will only get you so far if the AI can't adapt and will still only run a straight predefined path

The thread title is very misleading.

Also these people should get together with the SpinTires people.

If you like playing around in BeamNG, you might wanna checkout Rigs of Rods, if you haven't already. It's another soft-body sandbox toy that's been around for awhile. Although ROR is open-source and has more stuff to do.

Mandatory crash compilation:

Thanks for the tip man. Will check it out momentarily.

Someone out there is furiously masturbating to that video right now.

Oh yeah, that's the stuff... I'm also a big fan of this. Gets me going every time.

Quick! Somebody get the Drive Club guy.

@somedelicook said:

Drivatars in all games

Aw, Jesus, that's a terrible thing to say. Funny, yes, but also terrible.

The most impressive thing is how well the demo runs on my shitty old PC.

Kinky. Tell me more about contact surfaces and bulges...

This stuff is where it's at, no more parts of characters disappearing inside themselves when they bend their knees or freaky hover hand interaction.

They're working on what most people would imagine when you say soft body collisions. Basically each point on a curved surface makes contact as it should during a collision, but they also do an amazing job with stretching and tearing. Looks amazing. I want to shoot a huge bazooka in a gigantic blob of jello then take a car and drive around its insides.

I wish they would have shown the wireframe because I'm curious to know if the models are pre-subdivided into a lot of polygons, or if they get subdivided and segmented as the collisions happens. If the latter, than it would be a lot closer to being introduced in gaming since you could still have simple polygon models that only subdivide as you deform them.

We just need more power. A lot more power.

these soft body physics are getting my physics not so soft

ehh? eeehhhh????

(gross)

Cool video. For me it's that kind of Natural Motion leap from last gen in tech.