Reactor
Reactor, powered by Havok, Inc., makers of real-time physics software for digital entertainment and Web-based applications, incorporates the industry's leading technology that realistically simulates cloth, rope, liquid and hard-/soft-body objects that collide, bounce, break and stretch. reactor officially launched last month at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California.
"The reactor extension allows animators to more easily create details within water, hair and fabric that were once too tedious to bring to life," said Dan Prochazka, product manager at Discreet. "Powered by Havok's technology, Discreet's reactor provides the most advanced, complete and integrated physics and dynamics simulation system available for any 3D program."
For game developers, film and video producers and Web developers who want to add highly realistic, dynamic simulations to their 3ds max 4 scenes, reactor includes a real-time dynamics simulation previewer, providing an interactive viewing window. Game developers can integrate a dynamics library directly into a game title, making 3ds max™ a comprehensive solution for designing game interaction.
Reactor features include rope dynamics that simulate any deformable chain from realistic hair to knots of climbing ropes; cloth dynamics that give objects elasticity, weight and planar and flexion stiffness; rigid and soft bodies that offer solid- and soft-object simulation for everything from collapsing walls to landslides, as well as soft-body control over mass, friction and deformation; and real-world simulation of fluid surfaces including buoyancy and ripple reflection.
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