Coming Soon - Havoc 7.0 Physics

Server 1.40 will roll out the Havok 7 Physics Engine. The Havok 7 engine will provide some performance enhancements. The Lab says "The work is foundational as we look ahead into later in 2010 and 2011" & anticipates deploying "shipping?" Server 1.40 by summer.


Video by OpensourceObscure — Posted to Youtube April 03, 2010
Quick demo showing fast rezzing of physical objects and collisions, plus some eye-candy / shadow effect.

Second Life is currently using Havok physics engine, version 4. On a few regions on the Preview grid, they're now testing Havok version 7: http://bit.ly/a8AxiV
Video taken with GLC using current official SL Viewer 2 on Linux Ubuntu 10.04 alpha.