OpenSim Physics Engine Beats Linden Lab’s Havok

It’s not “news” but it shows how quickly the rate of progress has been on the OpenSim side of development. This video illustrates how “physical joints”, once the delight of SL, were re-introduced in OpenSim with merely a patch.

Linden Lab has long since abandoned joints, well before the upgrade to Havok 4, because they were “too difficult to implement” and not worth the trouble “because so few people used them”. Still, for some specific applications, you can imagine how fun they can be!…

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