Disney’s Cars 2 game and Riptide GP for Android using Bullet

The new Cars 2 game by Disney Interactive is using Bullet physics!

Furthermore, Ralph shared the news that Riptide GP for Android is using Bullet:

“Besides our internal tech there are three key components that made Riptide GP possible:  The Android NDK, Bullet Physics, and FMOD Sound System.  The NDK allows us to write native C++ code which is then optimized for the ARM architecture.  Bullet Physics, which we use for collision detection and rigid body simulation, just worked out of the box.  FMOD Sound System released an Android version of their SDK just in time, which has been working flawlessly since the first release.”

See also http://www.vectorunit.com/blog/2011/6/27/the-tech-behind-riptide-gp.html

SIGGRAPH 2011 course, Bullet 2.78 out, job opening

We are organizing a course on destruction and dynamics for game and film production for the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference in Vancouver. It will be held on Sunday August 7 from 2-5.15PM. Aside from this we released Bullet 2.78 a while ago. This release adds the option for contact generation between convex polyhedra using contact clipping and a fracture demo among others. Last but not least, AMD is looking for developers who want to help out with physics simulation, see the job description here.

Fast Multiphysics for Softimage uses Bullet (Exocortex Momentum 2.0)

Exocortex is pleased to announce that Momentum 2.0, the ultimate high speed multiphysics simulator, is now immediately available for Autodesk Softimage 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Exocortex Momentum 2.0, because it relies on the industrial strength Bullet physics framework, provides robust support for Rigid Bodies, Soft Bodies, Cloth, Ropes, Constraints, Interactions and Attachments.

Try or buy it today:

http://exocortex.com/simulation/momentum

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Bullet at GDC 2011 Physics Tutorial, Double Fine ‘Stacking’


The presentation is titled ‘game physics artifacts’ and covers similar material to chapter 2 of the Game Physics Pearls book. We will use both Bullet and the new Sony Physics Effects SDK to illustrate some examples. You can download the presentation for the Game Developers Conference Physics Tutorial and the preliminary Physics Effects-Bullet integration from http://code.google.com/p/bullet/downloads/list.

Also, you should check out the new Double Fine Studios Stacking game on XBox Live and PSN.

Happy 2011: 3DMark 11 uses Bullet Physics, FXGuide Interview

The latest Futuremark 3DMark 11 uses Bullet Physics in both CPU and GPU benchmarks using Microsoft DirectCompute. For more info see this whitepaper.

Check out this recent interview with FXGuide.com: Coumans recently started at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), having worked at Sony Computer Entertainment in R&D. “At AMD I will continue and expand the work I started at Sony on the open source Bullet physics library.”

Cinema 4D 12 Dynamics using Bullet adds constraints, springs, soft body and .bullet export

From the Maxon website, the latest Cinema 4D release 12 adds improved Bullet Dynamics support:

“Drop everything and let the laws of physics take over with the new rigid body dynamics in CINEMA 4D Studio. Based on the production-proven Bullet engine, the dynamic simulations are rock-solid stable and simple to use. Simulations can include thousands of objects and millions of polygons. Just add a tag to any object and let the forces of nature take over. Collisions can be detected for any shape – even concave surfaces. Hierarchies can be treated as a single object or individual dynamic bodies.

With just a click of the mouse, your hard bodies transform into soft and springy structures. Soft body simulations in CINEMA 4D Studio are simple to setup and offer amazing flexibility. You can easily adjust how soft and springy each object should behave, using vertex maps for point-level control.”

Download a demo version that supports all those features including .bullet export here: http://www.maxon.net/products/cinema-4d-studio/new.html
Watch some cool video tutorials here: http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/09/whats-new-in-cinema-4d-release-12/

Bullet in SIGGRAPH collision detection course, Toy Story 3 game, Sherlock Holmes and A-Team movie

On Monday July 25th, 2-5PM at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles we  discussed recent improvements in the Bullet collision detection pipeline in our SIGGRAPH course “Recent Advances in Real-Time Collision and Proximity Computations for Games and Simulations“. Thanks for all questions and feedback! See the slides here.

Disney Avalanche just shipped their Toy Story 3 game for PlayStation 3, XBox 360 and Wii, and it uses Bullet physics.

Weta Digital integrated Bullet in their in-house FX pipeline tool called wmRigid, and one of the first releases using the rigid body simulation is the A-Team movie, thanks to Ronnie for letting us know!

“I work at Framestore, and spent several months last year developing a tool called “fBounce”, which allows artists to run Bullet rigid body simulations through Maya. The tool has been used on a few productions now, but the only one released so far is Sherlock Holmes, which won the VES award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture. There’s an article on the fxguide website about the effects, which mentions fBounce twice!”

Thanks a lot Kate for sharing this information. See the original posting here.

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