A few members of our development team recently took part in a roundtable discussion with NVIDIA and several media outlets to shed some light on how NVIDIA’s PhysX is used in our upcoming FPS, Darkest of Days.
One feature definitely worth mentioning is NVIDIA’s GPU acceleration for PhysX. The ability to compute PhysX on the GPU has been incredible for us, and truly has taken the level of naturalism in our environments to a much higher level. With that feature enabled, we are able to fill our battlefield’s with thousands more physically-active particles — everything ranging from leaves blowing through the fields with each gust of wind to the billowing smoke clouds and dirt clods thrown up by every artillery strike.
Screenshots and videos of the effects in action will be coming, but in the meantime:
Find out more by visiting the latest headlines at NVIDIA’s nZone.
Go directly to the transcript of the roundtable here: Darkest of Days—Interview
