Havok Vs Unity Physics Vs PhysX: Which is best?

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Unity now offers Havok physics bringing the total available physics engines for 3D projects up to 3.
Not sure which physics engine to use for your Unity project? I'll help break down when to use each, the costs, and the benefits.
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@Argoon1981 Жыл бұрын

Havok in reality is way older than Nvidia PhysX, Havok came in 2000 and was used in more than 600 games, but IMO only really got famous when Valve used it for Half life 2 and the source engine, Nvidia PhysX came way later and from the acquisition of Ageia PhysX that in its turn came from the Novodex physics engine that was developed in 2004.

@N3ur0funk_Infinity Жыл бұрын

It is old. I remember the first time I saw Havok in action in Painkiller. It made a big impression on me when I was a teenager. The game itself was brilliant, but Havok added even more fun.

@Argoon1981 Жыл бұрын

@@N3ur0funk_Infinity Indeed but I'm sure modern Havok is not exactly like old Havok, apart from the name. But the older version was a game changer for games indeed, all games that add ragdolls and cool advanced physics in the early 2000's used Havok physics, apart from Unreal 2 and some other games made on Unreal 2 engine that add its own inhouse physics engine, but like you said painkiller was a famous game where Havok played a large part in the fun, as was in Max Payne 2 and many others. :)

@Kannatron Жыл бұрын

I literally just googled about unity havok, and you uploaded 22 minutes ago. very strange

@ChristopherFrancis3D Жыл бұрын

Excellent timing

@irtezamasud1079 Жыл бұрын

Same here. Weird

@JamesWjRose 9 ай бұрын

Thanks. That was very enlightening. Have a wonderful day

@iansmathew 8 ай бұрын

Ex-game developer coming back to gamedev after 5 years. This video was exactly what I was looking for. Short, concise and very informative. Thanks!

@ChristopherFrancis3D 8 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@Caved_Johnson 11 ай бұрын

I don't know how I ended up here, but that was quite interesting.

@Officialjadenwilliams Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@ChristopherFrancis3D Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jaden!

@Josh-mm7qt Жыл бұрын

Didn't think I would see you here, love your vids.

@nebuladevelopments 3 ай бұрын

glad to see you here

@WAYNGames Жыл бұрын

Nice sum up of the options. Dots definitely has a steep learning curve. But I would argue that If you have no prior experience you would be better off starting using it now instead of learning Monobehavior. One of the hardest part about DOTS is to get out of the OOP mindset of Monobehavior.

@longiusaescius2537 8 ай бұрын

Dots is ECS?

@WAYNGames 8 ай бұрын

@@longiusaescius2537 No DOTS is not ECS. DOTS is larger than ECS it also includes the job system, the burst compiler and hopefully soon other packages such as animation, audio,... But in any case with ECS or the job system the way to think about your data is different from what most people are used to with mono behavior.

@longiusaescius2537 8 ай бұрын

@@WAYNGames thanks for the explanation

@LukeClemens Жыл бұрын

I think you should mention that on mobile platforms, PhysX + game-objects outperforms Unity Physics + DOTS. 😞

@pixboi Жыл бұрын

I've ran some tests, theres really no good reason to go with Unity Physics as of now, only small performance gains over PhysX.

@odo432 Жыл бұрын

Isn't Havok still available for free on older versions of DOTS (0.51 and below)? I guess if you really wanted to use it and don't wish to go Pro then that's an option.

@ChristopherFrancis3D Жыл бұрын

Good thinking there. I haven’t tried but seems doable unless it’s been deprecated.

@ThanksForAllMyToes Жыл бұрын

We recently got Unity Pro and cannot find the "Havok" package anywhere. It does not appear in package manager. So I'm not sure what we're doing wrong.

@ChristopherFrancis3D Жыл бұрын

Make sure your project is version 2022.2 or later and then use the following resources as guides: ECS docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.0/manual/index.html Havok docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.havok.physics@1.0/manual/quickstart.html

@UltramarineAfterglow Жыл бұрын

I chose dots

@Octamed Жыл бұрын

Seems like Unity could easily use PhysX for DOTS as physx is highly threaded (you can see it in the jobs profiler). I wonder why they don't? Also I presume there's zero collision interaction between PhysX and Unity Physics?