Re: Question about development of prototyping tools.

Just wanted to express my thoughts here that, whilst we have that much 
more CPU horsepower available today so we could use general purpose 
physics systems to handle all cases it might still be a better idea to 
do it the old way.

If you model your cases explicitly, you have a much higher level of 
control over the simulation. If you really think about it, games don't 
model real physics in most cases anyway, they are no reality simulator 
but entertainment machines with super natural rules. Whilst some games 
really profit from a fully blown physcis thing, most games have a small 
number of issues to solve which can be done in a highly efficient, 
reliable, controlled and cost effective way without using physics 
simulation - and you got a lot of space and CPU left to the simulation 
aspects like AI etc.

Cheers,

Peter


Am 24.04.2011 08:37, schrieb Morten Brodersen:
> Hehe...I actually worked on that specific code and it was a bit of a pain to
> get right. Here is what I ended up doing:
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