Total novice question - Is this possible?

Gaming and Visualization Technologies APIs Physics Modeling (closed)
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All,

I have a robotics project that I’d like to model using GPU accelerated physics. The specific thing I want to get out of the physics engine is the contact points and pressures in collisions between bodies. One example might be a foot hitting the ground, or a tire running over a bumpy surface. Ideally I’d be able to produce a map of the surface of any object and each frame have a value for where pressure is being applied and how much.

How would you make this happen?

Thanks in advance,

Ian

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Hi,

PhysX does not currently offer a GPU implementation of the rigid body pipeline. The CPU rigid body pipeline does offer contact modification where you can read and modify the impulses applied between rigid bodies.