Havok is exploding like a red barrel into the world of artificial intelligence. With ragdoll grace, the middleware company announced its new Havok AI SDK during GDC 2009, promising "unique solutions" to various AI pathfinding issues faced by today's game developers.
Like the folks at 1UP, we're not exactly sure what this means for gamers, though the new software is supposed to be fully compatible with Havok's other products and tools, such as Havok Physics. Perhaps now enemy patrols will get the good sense not to seek shelter behind things that go kablooey when bullets begin to fly.
[Thanks David B.]
Reader Comments (11)
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 9:12AM (Unverified) said
So we are going to have an intelligent jaggy game ?
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 9:48AM (Unverified) said
Let's wonder if the next Elder Scrolls game will implement this.
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 9:54AM Levi said
Well, as long as all of our enemies don't act the same, this is ok. Havok is used in a ton of games, and it makes sense for realistic object physics to be redundant, as they are REALISTIC... but AI should feel different from game to game. It's one of the few things action games and shooters have to set themselves apart from the next.
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 11:49AM Ricky Bango said
David Bowie sends tips to Joystique? Nice!
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 12:00PM TheDarkWayne said
So are npcs gonna flail around wildly when they're alive now?
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 12:39PM (Unverified) said
havok is irish of course it'l be awesome! :)
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 12:56PM Zak Canard said
Nice, something else to shunt off to the GPU. I wonder what NVidia and ATI's next trick will be for their cards, audio support perhaps?
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 1:13PM juggalotusmx said
now this is an interesting news, too bad this wasn't implemented in resident evil 5.
Id like to see some of this in the already smart Half Life 2ish
Id like to see some of this in the already smart Half Life 2ish
Posted: Mar 24th 2009 3:54PM (Unverified) said
smarter ai? of course! for crackdown 2, right? yes! great idea!




