[ODE] Physics in halflife 2

Joakim Eriksson jme at snowcode.com
Thu May 15 03:28:02 2003


BTW. The movies can only be retrived from
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/media.html
However they require you to be a 'complete' member to get them.

I can describe them a bit. Lets start by saying that they show
everything you can possibly dream about in a game when it comes to
physics. It shows soft bodies (Matresses), barrels, bouancy (Diffrent
depending on what object it is. Barrels sing, boxes, planks dont).
Ragdoll
physics, shatter, Reaction forces (One example was a big container
standing on a wood 'table'. He threw a bomb under it. The bomb broke
the legs on the table. So the container fell down and cruched
the enemy.)
It event has things like the phone lines hanging in the air react to
the helicopter hovering over them. I have never seen a game with so
much detail.

If you dont see these then your missing a LOT.

Regards
 Joakim E.