Realtime Water effects even on cheap gfx cards PhysXInfo

[Zebuddi123]

Wow this looks really good http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... swim-video

Zebuddi.

[Blankname]

Not really anything new, water like this has been possible for many many years. It takes the same approach Rigs of Rods does, and applies it to how each rect of water is drawn and handled. Tho we haven't seen water like this in games is because it has always been extremely GPU taxing. Maybe in a few more years, we will have enough GPU power standard to handle tons of complex physics calculations and the game buffer at the same time (AMD now has Tressfx which will become standard in games). Unless of course, APU's become the future of central processing units. By then the on-die iGPU will be more than powerful enough to handle complex physics number crunching, while the dedicated GPU can draw the game itself (this is where I honestly see technology going very soon).

[MachineCode]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... swim-video

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water like this has been possible for many many years

How can I view the article?

[tj1010]

Not really anything new, water like this has been possible for many many years. It takes the same approach Rigs of Rods does, and applies it to how each rect of water is drawn and handled. Tho we haven't seen water like this in games is because it has always been extremely GPU taxing. Maybe in a few more years, we will have enough GPU power standard to handle tons of complex physics calculations and the game buffer at the same time (AMD now has Tressfx which will become standard in games). Unless of course, APU's become the future of central processing units. By then the on-die iGPU will be more than powerful enough to handle complex physics number crunching, while the dedicated GPU can draw the game itself (this is where I honestly see technology going very soon).

Fabrication tech isn't even remotely close enough to raise clock rates and implement this to scale. I'd say at least another decade or two if companies stay productive.

Or if optical interconnect catches on and are implemented for most of the chip buses. Which should be a high priority right now.

Stuff like this has been in demoscene even longer than anywhere else, game studios use generic frameworks with little optimization though.

[Zebuddi123]

@ MachineCode thats strange this link works ? try http://physxinfo.com/news/11109/introdu ... ed-fluids/

zebuddi.

[MachineCode]

zebuddi, thanks, your second link works. The one in your original post shows this (cropped):