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well I have been looking at some of the ageia tutorials in the past few days and was on my way to somewhere talking to another [pbg] member on the phone only to discover that the tutorials were removed from the web. ???

this lead me to do a bit of digging because physics are already to the point where they are highly used in gaming. I went to the nvidia site to see if I could find anything at all about the videos, though I must admit it feels a lot different from going to the ageia site in some odd way.. I dunno maybe because it is like dealing with an institution as opposed to a mom and pop little store where they make you want to come into the friendly atmosphere blah blah

Long and short of this is it appears as though nvidia will continue to develop phys-X. I have only just begun to dig here but this was a promising start IMHO. This forum they are running is obviously brand new as there are only 4700 members or so and had it been there long that number would be more like 47000.

It is still hard to say what is going to happen with phys-X for sure at this point, I personally would like to see nvidia set up the people that were already developing the technologies to continue doing so. However my bet is they may only hire a few of them and maybe give them some of their own programmers to help the continuation of the phys-X project.

Anyways here is a link to nvidia's phys-X developers forum and for now at least this is something positive and a place to start from.

http://developer.nvidia.com/forums/index.php?act=idx

It would cool to see anyone mapping create an account there as the more interest there is on this matter the better we stand a chance of it's further development.

bh