this really isnt a technical question at all. anyways, would it be possible to recreate physics as seen in half-life 2 using gamestudios physics engine?

Download some demos from the Newton website and build your own opinion

I believe so. Depends on how good you are at programming.

Hi!

I spent a few days using Newton trying to get HL2 style graphics. Here's my post about it in the Newton forums:

http://newtondynamics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1155&highlight=hl2

I haven't gotten it to work yet. If you do get it to work, please let me know!!

Cheers!
- Bret

Hi Bret,

I don't think that they turn off the physics in HL2 as you suggested at the newton forum. Look, how the things behave when you hit a wall or cieling.

Maybe, they used a sort of unvisible gripper.

Waybe, they added forces relating the position in front of the camera: if the object is not as near as the special position they add a force in direction to that position. If the object is at the position the strengh of the forces from all six directions is equal.

Just an idea, could work this way.

I've done this with newton where the player can pick up/throw physics objects.
I have also added collisions between the player and the objects.
I might post a little demo if anyone is interested in seeing it at work.

I do! I'm interested in seeing a small demo of this...

Hi Josh!

Yup, I'd love to see a demo as well! And source code!! :-)

- Bret

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Ok, great.

I may not be posting source code right away though as I have a little work to do on it before it's complete.
This depends on if I have these corrected when I post the demo.

There is one glitch while holding the objects that I need to fix such as:
the objects slowly spin while holding them, if you pick up an object with a mass lesser than 10 and turn the camera too quickly the object flys to the origin of the level and stays there spinning. I also want to make the E button toggle the holding on and off like in HL2 instead of having to hold the E button to hold them(I tried toggling before and it caused several problems... I'll have to come up with another way). I was also planning on adding ragdolls which can be picked up with a gravity gun weapon.

This should have been finished long ago, but other projects I am working on took priority.

great thanks, i just wanted to know how good the physics engin is on this program, and weather or not i should start writing plugins for my own or not.