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OctaveEngine Delivers Water Physics

OctaveEngine Delivers Water Physics

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A tech-demo video of a fairly new physics toolset called OcataveEngine has surfaced. The 1:42 min. footage shows off a variety of engine capabilities, with the highlight being its water effects:

OctaveEngine is the worlds first simulation engine that can dynamically simulate hydro-dynamics on a game machine. -- Prometech

The OctaveEngine middleware by Prometech is being developed specifically for games and said to become commercially available in winter 2007. It's currently used in NAMCOs upcoming arcade version of Tekken 6, which is due by the end of this year. Further reports (in Japanese) suggest, that support for Windows-based systems including DirectX 10 is planned as well.

Leonard McCoy
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November 5, 2007 - 16:38 #

Every somewhat bigger company has got an own engine now ...