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Dark Physics & Dark A.I. & Dark Dynamix / Dark Physics Upgrade 1.02 Beta

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Mike Johnson
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Posted: 6th Feb 2007 13:54
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A link to the latest upgrade is now available. You can find this link by logging into the site and going to the Order History section.

One of the main changes relates to how triangle meshes are handled. This should resolve some problems where the position of the object does not correspond with the actual physics data.

Some other minor changes have been made and things for me to do include an adjustment to the collision system. Going to make the system of continually checking for collisions optional and add something where you can check specific objects. This should help to speed things up. Also got some new commands to add in which will help to get more control over certain sections.

This release hasn't been tested with everything yet. If you find any problems please post a report and include as much information as possible.
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Hoozer
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Posted: 6th Feb 2007 14:44
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@ Mike: Thanks a lot for the BETA (even that should make some of us happy)!

I hope you can keep up your good work! (And give DP some "regular" updates, every 2 or 3 months would be nice, that way you get also more feedback about if things work right or not!)


Till the next Update!

Andreas Hoyer (Hoozer)

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Kendor
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Posted: 6th Feb 2007 16:27
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Hi Mike,

First of all thanks for the new update. Unfortuntately, the following 2 bugs are still present:

1. Materials cannot be applied to Convex bodies

2. Objects cannot be moved prior setting them as static mesh, as they will not work

Hope you solve these problems!

P.s. any news on vehicles sliding?

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Syncaidius
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Posted: 8th Feb 2007 17:59
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Hey mike, will you be adding commands for Deformable objects which Ageia have added to the Physics Runtime?

heres where I saw it:
http://www.ageia.com/physx/tech_demos.html


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Hoozer
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Posted: 8th Feb 2007 22:13 Edited at: 8th Feb 2007 22:50
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@ DBking: I also was hoping this when I downloaded this Beta, but actually it seems like a "fix of worst problems" and without any of the new features (no softbodies (AGEIA-SDK-V-2.7); no deformable objects (SDK-V-2.6.2); no software fluids (SDK-V-2.6); I'm not 100% sure about this, but I tried to use the "fluids" without hardware and it didn't work)!

I hope he can add this, when he has less stress (seems like he has to do a lot of things actually)!


Andreas Hoyer (Hoozer)

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Sunflash
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Posted: 8th Feb 2007 23:44
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Phy Add Ridig Body Force At Angle, and a command to apply force to rotate an object at a cerain angle!! Stuff like this is really needed!

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Mike Johnson
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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 09:26
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The old SDK is still being used. New features will be coming in soon once I complete the move to the latest SDK.
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Hoozer
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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 11:29
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@ Mike: Hopefully within the next 2 or 3 months (an update within this time space during a year for a product seems to me a good support, even if this are "small" updates)!

Keep up the good work!


Andreas Hoyer (Hoozer)

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Codger
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Posted: 14th Feb 2007 06:43 Edited at: 14th Feb 2007 06:44
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Since I dropped the update into the "Crogram FilesDark Basic SoftwareDark Basic Professionalplugins-licensed" folder I get the message
"Licensed Plugin is not recognised by compiler! Visit the Gamecreators.com for an update"

When I hit return it appears to run o.k.

I am never sure where to drop in some of these updates. My system probably needs scrubbibg because I now have 3 plugins-licensed folders. Does anyone know how to see where the compiler looks for the various folders.

Thanks in advance
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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 14th Feb 2007 10:45
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Quote: "I am never sure where to drop in some of these updates."


Thats just because this is a beta, normally they install. You are putting it in the correct folder I believe. Do you have DBP 6.4?

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DEastham
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Posted: 17th Feb 2007 08:53
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How soon is soon?

I'm starting to lose hope, to be honest. I bought DBPro/DP for one purpose, which still hasn't been implemented (though it was in the PhysX SDK at the time). I sure wish there had been a LARGE posted notice at the time.
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White knight
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Posted: 17th Feb 2007 10:04
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is phy make cloth from object and from limb implemented in it yet?

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Redmotion
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Posted: 20th Feb 2007 11:56
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What are the new features in the latest SDK?

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Hoozer
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Posted: 20th Feb 2007 21:34
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@ Redmotion: Do you mean the "AGEIA-SDK" or DP?

If you mean the Ageia-SDK: softbodies (AGEIA-SDK-V-2.7); deformable objects (SDK-V-2.6.2); software fluids (SDK-V-2.6); cloth-metal (SDK-V-2.6.2?) (some kind of bending and breaking for objects)!

If you mean DP: Well, only Mike can tell us what parts he wants, can, likes or have to include into the next Update!

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 08:50 Edited at: 5th Mar 2007 09:07
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I'd like to see more control over particles, since TGC dropped support for the cloth and particles pack. I'm worried future DBP updates won't be compatible, and DP seems like it has potential with it's particles. However it's very limited right now.

We need to be able to control things like particle rotations, easy to implement attractors and repellers, etc.

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Chris Franklin_
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2007 17:43
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Any news? how long till it's out of beta?

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Dark Angel_1246
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Posted: 15th Apr 2007 04:33 Edited at: 15th Apr 2007 04:34
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Come on!!! - I wish Mike would keep us notified!

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