PhysX VS AI4Animation

I know you mean PhysX how it was WAYYY back (& GPU accel), but it's been open source for ages.

Unity’s default physics engine is literally PhysX (https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX).

It all gets petty hairy.. which is why writing physics engines is Hard, and you should be pretty skeptical when someone is like: "Hay gauis I made a new phYsics engine!! you should totally use it!" Even the big guys thrash around in this space.. as someone mentioned in another comment... although there is sometimes a case to be made for rolling your own, if you're valve for instance.. All that said, I'm really partial to Bullet just because it's so damn battle tested (unity/blender and countless other engines) But I'm generally pro havok/physX and also the newer Jolt physics library. https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX https://github.com/ashconnell/physx-js https://jrouwe.github.io/JoltPhysics/

Then what about this? https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX/tree/4.1/physx

PhysX has gone open source quite a while ago as well: https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/UnityPhysXPlugin

The pull request can be found here: https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX/pull/577

Hi all, I've been around this scene since 2014 and we've seen some incredible mods over the years. If anyone is familiar with the AI scene recently, you may have came across a paper called DeepPhase which allows for fully procedural, unique animations in realtime. It's a long shot, but is anyone here familiar with the animation pipeline for Skyrim - and whether it would be even feasible to implement this paper into the game? This is just theorycrafting or spitballing an idea, but I'd love to have a discussion here!

character motion being the same old animations, just done/interpolated better

the only advancement I know of which got close to be implemented in games is https://github.com/sebastianstarke/AI4Animation (I think Sebastian worked with EA or some other big company at some point) - still haven't played anything using this though

Here's the paper for one of them: Phase Function Neural Networks. In the paper you can also find names of other algorithms and look up their associated papers. The reason I single out this one is because the author also uploaded their original Unity implementation.

(bonus: here's an excellent and comprehensive gdc talk from ubisoft going over their tech and how it helped them address the insane complexity in their assassin's creed games. second bonus: the guys that did that basketball demo in the 2 minute papers video have their work in a github repo, if you're feeling spry)