Lumberyard with New PhysX

Amazon’s “Lumberyard” game engine receives another update: The new beta version comes with changes for the Animation Editor, PhysX and more!

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Amazon Lumberyard 1.21 released. The new features include the new “Simulated Objects” node in the animation editor. It can automatically chain animations to simulate, for example, a character’s clothing or hair based on the respective movements. You can influence the simulation for each joint with various settings such as Stiffness or Gravity . Nvidia’s real-time physics system—PhysX—was also updated by the developers to version 4.1. The other new features include…

Further information: To the release notes