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Can I make an PhysX support through simconnect in the AIR file ?

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The topic says it all; is it possible ?

  • 4 weeks later...

What, in detail, do you expect to do with PhysX?

Gerry Howard

FS doesn't support PhysX.

Yes FSX does not support Physx.

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Of course it doesn't, but my question remains what in detail did the OP think could be done with PhysX? More basically what could PhysX offer for any flight simulation?

Gerry Howard

Well, in the general sense, you can use a generic rigid body physics engine for quite a few things in a flight simulator:

  • Collision Detection
  • General rigid body stuff for aircraft ground handling and regular cars/trucks/etc
  • If it includes a cloth/wave simulation, you can also use it for water surface animation, flapping flags and wind socks, etc
  • Some also provide support for moving some calculations to the GPU, although you could also go directly through DirectX APIs for that :->

Granted, once you leave the ground, most general rigid body physics engines don't provide support for that. Tim

Thanks. That confirms my suspicion that PhysX wouldn't do any better for the flight dynamics that the conventional 6-DOF equations.

Gerry Howard

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