[Opensim-dev] Super easy question

[Robert Martin]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Robert A. Knop Jr. <rknop at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 01:11:32PM -0700, Michael Cerquoni wrote:
>> I think it should also be mentioned that just because Second Life is using
>> Havok, they are not using standard binaries that are freely available, they
>> have no doubt highly customized the engine to meet their needs.
>
> Indeed.  I don't know exactly what was done, so I'm not giving away
> inside information here.  But do remember that the project to integrate
> Havok 4 into SL (upgrading from Havok 2) took many months, first of
> development, then of testing.  At least one Linden (Andrew) was working
> near-full-time on the Havok 4 project for quite some time.  It's not a
> plug-and-play situation.
>

there is no doubt that Havok was greatly hacked by Linden Labs (and LL
has deployed Havok 7) as to the skill of said hacking.....

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Robert L Martin