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Arma 2's Great Physics Engine!

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A while back a friend and I found a interesting glitch. Here was the results of the physics engine freaking out. Enjoy!

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It's a beta feature, the next update to ARMA will feature space warfare (Strategic Defense Initiative, Almaz space stations, etc).

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thats how people go to heaven, god picks you up in his pimped out apc then destroys a building and drives into it

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This video is old. This is not a fault of the physics engine, but an improperly configured custom addon. The physics engine is not the most complicated thing in the world but it's not that bad.

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When you would post that BUG on cit they will make it a feature request. Because the way physics work right now is totally realistic and desired effect. Especially the flipping over rocks took the devs al long time to implement. Don't think you would see that changed in a short while ;)

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Its very realistic. Numerous documented situations like that in the balkan war and desert storm. [/fanboy]

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The rocks in Takistan are an acknowledged issue AFAIK.

Legitimate criticisms of the physics engine are good but this is not one. The issues seen in the video are related to user content.

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Guys, as an april fool joke, I think you all have been some 13 days too late.

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That was the old destroyed Trampoline Factory, which explains why you where bouncing.

thats not a glitch actually, it is one of the only exports from Cherarus, world class tramps : )

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I thought the music was glitchy'er than the physics. Sounded like Amiga protracker tune with ST-01 and ST-02 :D (Sorry, couldn't resist :D)

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  Max Power said:
The physics engine is not the most complicated thing in the world but it's not that bad.

It's not even a real physics engine.

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  MulleDK19 said:
It's not even a real physics engine.

And what makes a physics engine a 'real' physics engine?

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  NeMeSiS said:
And what makes a physics engine a 'real' physics engine?

One that does even just basic physics. Which the physics engine in BIS' games does not.

It's just something that kinda looks like physics.

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  MulleDK19 said:
One that does even just basic physics. Which the physics engine in BIS' games does not.

It's just something that kinda looks like physics.

Things in the air fall down, sounds like pretty decent basic behaviour. :p

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  MulleDK19 said:
One that does even just basic physics. Which the physics engine in BIS' games does not.

It's just something that kinda looks like physics.

Basic physics is picking up a skull in Ultima Underworld, throwing it and seeing how the skull sprite ricochets off walls and slides on the floor before stopping.

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  NeMeSiS said:
Things in the air fall down, sounds like pretty decent basic behaviour. :p

Unless that thing happens to be a dead body hanging rigid in midair with only his pinky toe touching a platform :p

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  froggyluv said:
Unless that thing happens to be a dead body hanging rigid in midair with only his pinky toe touching a platform :p

Pfffrt, i said 'in the air', someone holding on to the edge of a platform with only his toe clearly isnt in the air. :p

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  NeMeSiS said:
Things in the air fall down, sounds like pretty decent basic behaviour. :p

Something that moves isn't physics. That's just movement.

Sure stuff fall down, cars stay on the roads and helicopters stay in the air.

But it's not real physics. Planes hitting the ground rotates in random ways, cars landing on 2 wheels will slowly (like a feather) land on all 4 wheels. A bus with no wheels touching the ground, will still move forward if the wheels are turning, as long as any part of the bus is touching something. The wheels are not moving the bus. The wheels are just turning with the bus' movement. Eg. if you make a script you put a car in the air, and give it an impulse forward, the wheels will turn as fast as the car is moving.

http://www.arma2.treesoft.dk/videos/BadPhysics1.wmv

No object in any of the games behave anything like they would in the real world.

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LOL, did you witness the physics in OFP:DR?

fHdU9v05wqU

And it uses Havok, so much for real physics.

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  MulleDK19 said:
Stuff

There is always dragon rising or red river for you.

edit: lol @ defunkt... beat me by seconds :)

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  Defunkt said:
LOL, did you witness the physics in OFP:DR?

fHdU9v05wqU

And it uses Havok, so much for real physics.

That's simply a bad implementation.

  76 said:
There is always dragon rising or red river for you.

Oh, yea, because Dragon Rising is a physics engine for ARMA 2. Retard...

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  MulleDK19 said:
Something that moves isn't physics. That's just movement.

Sure stuff fall down, cars stay on the roads and helicopters stay in the air.

But it's not real physics. Planes hitting the ground rotates in random ways, cars landing on 2 wheels will slowly (like a feather) land on all 4 wheels. A bus with no wheels touching the ground, will still move forward if the wheels are turning, as long as any part of the bus is touching something. The wheels are not moving the bus. The wheels are just turning with the bus' movement. Eg. if you make a script you put a car in the air, and give it an impulse forward, the wheels will turn as fast as the car is moving.

http://www.arma2.treesoft.dk/videos/BadPhysics1.wmv

No object in any of the games behave anything like they would in the real world.

I am sorry, i thought you said basic.

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