HAVOK 4 ON BETA GRID

Posted Sep 28th 2007 7:03PM by Akela Talamasca
Filed under: News, Updates

OMGWTFKMFDM! is what I imagine many people will say when they hear the news: Havok 4 is now available on the Beta grid. You can get the Beta client here.

What can you expect from the beta? From the Official Linden Blog:

Reduced simulator crashes
Less lag in the physics engine
More reliable prim linkage
Stacked dynamic objects react when supporting objects are removed
Improved collision management - uniform spheres collide as spheres, rather than as faceted shapes
Penetrating dynamic objects will be automatically pushed apart by Havok4's collision solver
Vertical simulation extent has been increased to 1024 meters
Some slight dynamic changes - avatar movements have changed slightly

Read the entire post before downloading the beta client, and check out the wiki for even more info, but rejoice: this is a step in the right direction, promoting stability before new features! Okay, naysayers: have at it.

Tags: beta-grid, havok-4, second-life

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1. YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!

As a car builder/scripter... I have to say....

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
It's a about freakin time!

Watch RaceSL developers grow like never before. ;)

Posted at 7:33PM on Sep 28th 2007 by Nacon

2. OMG OMG OMG! 1024m - wait... *reads again* oh, that's expansion only vertically. Nevermind. And no improvement of sim border hand-offs. Nevermind. Could be worth checking out just to see if the Flying Tako and the airships work smoothly within a sim anyways.

No mention of whether Linden Lab is testing out parallel processing implementations? I've felt for a while they could massively reduce the number of servers all this is running on if they went to something like the Nvidia Tesla instead of using up a whole core for each and every simulation. (Not counting the void sims).

Posted at 8:44PM on Sep 28th 2007 by Ananda

3. Hell just froze over.

Posted at 3:13AM on Sep 29th 2007 by Gwyneth Llewelyn

4. whats the big deal? i went on the beta grid. Yeh it ran faster, but its the beta grid.

Posted at 4:34AM on Sep 29th 2007 by Loki

5. This is horrible, in ways... But good at the same time.

Shields and other things like that will be helped -alot-. But what about warpers, quick movers, and all those nifty things? Those are now... obsolete. Great.

Posted at 12:59PM on Oct 6th 2007 by Tim

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