[Opensim-users] PhysX for Physics

[Mister Blue]

Additionally, the Bullet physics engine has an OpenCL pipeline so it can be
hardware accelerated on all of the various GPUs.

-- mb

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Sarge Misfit
<fubat.enterprises at gmail.com>wrote:

> Tranquility Dexler has been working to implement PhysX on InWorldz, which
> is OpenSim based. So it seems to me that PhysX can be used with OpenSim on
> the server-side. They''ll be running tests on thier Beta grid tomorrw, as a
> matter of fact. Tranq is very approachable so he might be willing to give
> you a few tips.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Nebadon Izumi <nebadon2025 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Joshua,
>>
>> OpenSimulator has 2 physics engines that are not built from scratch for
>> OpenSim, the 1st is Open Dynamics Engine (ODE), and the second is Bullet
>> which is also a widely used physics engine.  Both have been modified for
>> use with OpenSimulator but are not built from scratch specifically for this
>> project.
>>
>> R.Gunther,
>> There is a software/CPU version of PhysX a well as GPu based versions,
>> you would likely need to get the software version working before you would
>> even think about adding GPu support for it.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:50 AM, R.Gunther <rigun at rigutech.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>  Correct me if am wrong.
>>> But PhysX is videocard based. So lets say PhysX works only client side.
>>> In that case i dont see how you want to use it with opensim. Serverside
>>> is not a good idea. many dedicated servers dont have
>>> Graphics onboard with PhysX support. So it would only work for people
>>> that have the right card installed.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2012-10-18 13:34, Joshua Rubeck wrote:
>>>
>>> It appears to be that OpenSimulator has its own built from scratch
>>> physics engine. My question is would it be possible to use(of course
>>> applying the proper development to it) the Nvidia PhysX engine? It was one
>>> of the things my grid admins have been discussing but they arent sure if
>>> its possible to use, its a free software but that doesnt mean it will work
>>> with the type of platform OpenSim is.
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