Why the heck is almost every game engine trying to switch over to Bullet physics ?

[Jason Amstrad]

Why the heck is almost every game engine trying to switch over to Bullet physics ?
What is so special about Bullet ?

But I'm glad that Epic is sticking with PhysX.
It works good with my Nvidia video card.

[seenooh]

We'll have APEX, who cares what others do.

[stevenchau]

Nvidia physx vs bullet vs intel havok

[Saishy]

Nvidia physx vs bullet vs intel havok

We didn't start the flame wars.

[Blade[UG]]

We'll have APEX, who cares what others do.

... if ever the tools are released to the public..

[stevenchau]

yes , I hope this mouth can increace APEX .

[Nawrot]

Because for games where physics matters limiting self to only nvidia (physx) users is bad buisness decission.

[Jason Amstrad]

We'll have APEX, who cares what others do.

I agree 100% with seenooh.

[UnspoiledWalnut]

It's open source.

[Jason Amstrad]

It's open source.

Yes,but NVidia has APEX.

[Saishy]

Ok, what is APEX?

[UnspoiledWalnut]

Yes,but NVidia has APEX.

Yes... but Bullet is OPEN SOURCE. Which is, if you've got good programmers, a hell of a lot better because it's OPEN SOURCE. PhysX isn't bad by any means, but just because you like Nvidia's stuff more doesn't mean everyone else does.

Saishy, APEX is a dynamics system.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/apex.html

[SwizzleFish]

i'll bite.

does anyone in the know wish to explain (in their opinion of course) what the differences between these 3 technologies are?

[Zogrim]

Jason Amstrad

Why the heck is almost every game engine trying to switch over to Bullet physics ?

Hmm.. what engines exactly ?

UnspoiledWalnut

a hell of a lot better because it's OPEN SOURCE.

Havok is not open source. How many Havok powered games are released ? 300+
PhysX SDK is not open source. How many games ? 260+
Bullet is open source. Around 20 games for past years, if I remember correctly.

[seenooh]

... if ever the tools are released to the public..

As long as they are available in UDK, who cares...