PhysX Destruction Questions

[Tim_Hobson]

Hey Semaphore,

Dynamically fracturing is something that is on the list to work towards eventually, but has not been done yet. You can follow any updates here: Trello

The second is deformable mesh simulation, but currently isn’t support that I’m aware of. I did find this on Nvidia’s site: https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/physx/Manual/MigrationFrom28.html

"Deformables

PhysX 2 supported a wide range of deformable mesh simulation features such as environmental cloth, soft bodies, inflatable balloons and plastic deformation of rigid metal. For performance and code quality reasons, 3.3 temporarily stopped supporting many of 2.8 deformable features in favor of a much simpler and higher performance cloth simulation engine. In PhysX 3 dot releases, we will be incrementally adding back features such as environmental simulation. For the time being there is no substitute for many applications of PhysX 2 deformables."

I’ve reached out to a couple of the devs that work with this code to see if they are aware of anything regarding this directly.