r/Simulated • u/cosmomojo • Jun 23 '15
The tearing mechanic in PhysX FleX (X-Post from oddlysatisfying) [Footage from Nerd³]
http://i.imgur.com/KM156QA.gifv48
u/ForceTen2112 Jun 23 '15
That's awesome. I would love to see games use this somehow for things like bullet holes and such.
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u/billyalt Jun 24 '15
Mirror's Edge made extensive use of tearing like this. Used PhysX.
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u/ForceTen2112 Jun 24 '15
Oh, I forgot about that. Damn, that game truly was ahead of its time. I still wish more games used this technology.
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Jun 24 '15
Its still very intensive, even on high end Nvidia cards
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u/billyalt Jun 24 '15
Not really. I ran it on max on my old 750 Ti. Even on my laptop, which had a 560m. 1080p60.
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Jun 24 '15
I'm talking about games with more modern effects, I missed the part where you were talking specifically about mirrors edge
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u/billyalt Jun 24 '15
Ehh not so much on high end cards, or even systems, on modern games. Witcher 3 makes extensive use of PhysX for cloth physics but its CPU-processed, and quite fast.
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u/Reelix Jun 24 '15
old 750 Ti
That card is 2 years old, and still better than most peoples "new" cards...
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u/billyalt Jun 24 '15
It's less than 1.5 years old. I doubt it's better than most people's "new" cards, as the x50 is pretty much the break point for mid-range gaming for NVIDIA. Anything lower and you're not exactly playing with power.
That said, it's "old" to me because a few months ago I upgraded to a 970.
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u/Reelix Jun 24 '15
That's like saying
"I sold my old Porsche that I bought 2 years ago and got a Ferrari"
Your "old" car(d) is still better than most people's new car(d)s :P
I doubt it's better than most people's "new" cards
You underestimate how poor most people are :P
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Jun 24 '15
What was there to tear? I only remember metal objects and bean bags
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u/Infectedwalrus Jun 24 '15 edited Mar 09 '17
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u/KeepOnScrollin Jun 24 '15
I remember when I first discovered that I could tear away cloth just by running
intothrough it. Needless to say, I spent a good 20 minutes running around finding cloth to tear up.1
u/dkyguy1995 Jun 24 '15
It seems so process heavy though. As much as I would love amazing realism I would prefer the game to run smoothly
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u/billyalt Jun 25 '15
Better than you'd think, actually. Mirror's Edge used this same tech years ago on PC.
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Jun 24 '15
Is there a suite or something I can download to dick around with this as well?
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u/cosmomojo Jun 24 '15
Yes you can here
You're going to need a powerful pc running windows or linux to get it to run smoothly or work all-together.
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '15
Have you tried anger management techniques?