Havok physics software on PC soon-to-be free for non-commercial use
Friday 22nd February 2008, 07:00:00 AM, written by Farid
Havok, now part of Intel, announced yesterday at GDC08 that come May 2008 it will offer the PC version of its renowned physics and animation middleware solution, Havok Complete, free of charge for non-commercial use.
Havok Complete package is made of the Havok Physics software development kit (SDK), the bread and butter of the company, as well as of Havok Animation, which provides various animation controls and other inversed kinematics (IK). However, it doesn’t contain Havok Behavior, the so-called event-driven character animation blending tool, nor the recently announced and self-explanatory Havok Cloth and Havok Destruction.
Havok stressed the fact that the company was still focused on the commercial licensing of Havok Complete for console and commercial PC games and in other industries such as offline CGI and simulators. Speaking for Intel, the parent company of Havok, Renee J. James, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Software and Solutions Group –who must carry large business cards given the length of her full title-, said her company was “very pleased to be sponsoring this direction in the PC market. This aligns well with our ongoing strategy of putting the best software tools in the hands of PC games developers.”
Read the complete press release here.
Havok Complete package is made of the Havok Physics software development kit (SDK), the bread and butter of the company, as well as of Havok Animation, which provides various animation controls and other inversed kinematics (IK). However, it doesn’t contain Havok Behavior, the so-called event-driven character animation blending tool, nor the recently announced and self-explanatory Havok Cloth and Havok Destruction.
Havok stressed the fact that the company was still focused on the commercial licensing of Havok Complete for console and commercial PC games and in other industries such as offline CGI and simulators. Speaking for Intel, the parent company of Havok, Renee J. James, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Software and Solutions Group –who must carry large business cards given the length of her full title-, said her company was “very pleased to be sponsoring this direction in the PC market. This aligns well with our ongoing strategy of putting the best software tools in the hands of PC games developers.”
Read the complete press release here.
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