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NVIDIA Competition 2008 / [PhyX Comp 2008] Chewy's Entry

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Chewy
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Raaargh...

lol, Okay my first attempt at a competition on TGC. I have been playing about with DBpro for some time now and the competition inspired me to develop something and see it through until the end.

The screenprint doesn't really explain a lot, but I have sorted out a terrain with PhysX collision along with a really simple Vehicle using PhysX vehicle commands.

My next step will be to create a series of machines around the landscape (looks more like a landfill, damn im funny.. lol) Anyhow, the idea is the user controls the vehicle which has a bulldozer type front and pushes things about. The machinery will consist of a hopper which the user can drive into and using physx, release a load of spheres onto the terrain, the user then has to push all the spheres to a new location where using forcefields, will pick up the spheres and place them into a new hopper...

something like that I am just happy I have the first bit over and done with lol

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Freddix
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Posted: 4th Jul 2008 10:10
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Hi Chewy

Nice idea, and more to this it will be interactive demonstration
Good.

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LeeBamber
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Posted: 4th Jul 2008 13:14
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Remember the demo would benefit from an auto-run mode where no interaction is required (the vehicles driving themselves after a while). Also remember to create a switch between CPU and GPU in the demo, plus a scaling factor so those with monster rigs can ramp up the object count

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Chewy
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Posted: 4th Jul 2008 15:23
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Cheers Freddix

Thanks Lee for the input. I was going to implement the scaling factor and switching between cpu and gpu once the basic machinery idea is implemented and sorted out my media to ensure I fit the size cap.

Will post a new update later tonight

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Posted: 5th Jul 2008 00:16
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vehicles seems to be some fun, and your idea aswell. Good luck. ^^

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Chewy
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Okay, apologies I made a thread and haven't updated it.

I came across some problems with my idea when I wanted to try implement fluids and so on. I found myself focusing too much on interaction than demonstrating the physics scalability.

So I went back to the drawing board and I have started a second idea which is more focused and demonstrates rigid bodies, forcefields and cloth. With a bit of luck, I will have time to enter fingers crossed.

Anyawy, best wishes to everyone tomorrow and I thought I would say I have been inspired by quite a few people's projects and how fantastic some of the demos look and the ideas behind them

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Chewy
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Okay, I am really trying to get as much done as I can but I have hit a brick wall..

I have some objects falling from a height, They are suppose to be pretty heavy but I can't seem to get them to fall faster with gravity pulling them down?

Anyone know what commands I should be looking at to get the objects to fall faster?

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normal mass starts at 10,000, hope that helps.

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Chewy
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Posted: 19th Jul 2008 18:37 Edited at: 19th Jul 2008 19:15
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once they collide with the terrain they speed up a but, but when freefalling, just no improvement lol hmmm

Anyway, here are two screenshots so far:



now on to making foliage and some other things

EDIT: fixed the problem, increased the gravity lol

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Posted: 20th Jul 2008 18:25 Edited at: 20th Jul 2008 18:31
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argh I am sooo close to finishing but I think I am going to run out of time lol bah!

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Posted: 20th Jul 2008 19:04 Edited at: 20th Jul 2008 19:10
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Didn't get a chance to sort out the rest of the cloth or put in forcefields I was wanting to grrr lol

Quite glad with what I have done though I have attached a copy of my demo.

I have a half decent computer and running on low using cpu really drags down the fps lmao

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I get the same frame rate in all 3 scales. Doesn't matter if its on low or high, I always get roughly 18 fps on my machine. Also this is in software mode. Hope that helps.

Good luck

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really? hmmm I tried it on all 3 computers at home and it seemed to work... will have a look into it later

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