Taking advantage of Dual-core CPU is as easy as licensing middleware. In a budget of 5 million dollar, a 50.000 dollar licensing fee (or less) is peanuts.
See www.havok.com
or www.ageia.com, www.meqon.com
His love for graphics is nice, but pity he lack s physics programming skills:)
That's why Jan Paul van Waveren takes care of it, in Doom 3 etc. Physics Middleware will be of big importance for next-gen consoles, and it will rock the world:)
http://www.continuousphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB2/ind ex.php
The article doesnt mention importance of physics middleware. Havok, Novodex Meqon and others will be heavily optimized for Cell SPEs. This makes life much easier for game developers, and it changes the story.
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Taking advantage of Dual-core CPU is as easy as licensing middleware. In a budget of 5 million dollar, a 50.000 dollar licensing fee (or less) is peanuts. See www.havok.com or www.ageia.com, www.meqon.com
His love for graphics is nice, but pity he lack s physics programming skills :)
That's why Jan Paul van Waveren takes care of it, in Doom 3 etc. Physics Middleware will be of big importance for next-gen consoles, and it will rock the world :)
http://www.continuousphysics.com/Bullet/phpBB2/ind ex.php
The article doesnt mention importance of physics middleware. Havok, Novodex Meqon and others will be heavily optimized for Cell SPEs. This makes life much easier for game developers, and it changes the story.