新汽車物理引擎:CarX

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概括

CarX is a car physics engine.
Main fields of application are driving games and virtual reality systems.
CarX works as external module and adds realistic car behavior into your system.

CarX is available now on PC/Win32 Platform.

主要特色

* Easy to integrate with any physics engine
* support of different control devices
* combines hardcore driving simulation with smooth and nicely handling, even when using keyboard
* intuitive interface

CarX汽車物理引擎簡介

Many companies and software developers need complex car physics model.
There are many physics engines available in the world, but if your company working on car driving game or racing simulator, it is still very hard to integrate and tune car physics.

If your company working on professional driving simulator for educational purposes CarX interactive car physics engine may be the best solution for you.

Car physics engine CarX can be easily integrated into your software, no matter what physics engine you have, self made engine or licensed middleware.

CarX main feature is high quality car physics simulation in one hand and very nice adaptation for different control devices in other hand.

With CarX physics engine middleware you can give you players to handle virtual cars using keyboard, mouse or steering wheel with force feedback. Note that force feedback model calculates feedback forces directly from tire and road surface contact spots.

Second one feature is transmission model. Clutch, gearbox, differentials are finely modeled in CarX engine middleware.

It is very important for driving simulator to model car suspension. Thus CarX suspension model includes springs, stabilizers and dampers (shock absorbers) customizable elements.
Dampers in CarX technology may be tuned for fast and slow bound and rebound behavior.

Tire model is the most important element in car physics engine for car simulation software.
There are many articles about Pacejka Magic Formula but it is still hard to develop robust and stable car physics engine with it. CarX engine make use of formulas like this, but there is many extensions and practical adaptations for dynamic conditions. For example CarX engine takes in account real-time tire deforms and so on. You can customize every tire, change tire radius, width, pressure.

CarX is capable to simulate passenger cars, racing cars, small cars (karting), dragsters, and drift cars (especially nice with our steering helpers). Truck, Bus with complex sections of wheels is modeled very nice too.

When you drive virtual car in car simulation software using CarX technology, you feel the greatest pleasure. Known effects such oversteer and understeer, weight transfers are reproduced with CarX physics engine.

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試玩版下載 (要申請):
http://www.carx-tech.com/index.php?href=car_physics_engine_download.html&lang=eng

官方網頁:
http://www.carx-tech.com/index.php?href=car_physics_engine_home.html&lang=eng

老實說,物理的確不錯,而且無論使用鍵盤或是方向盤都有不錯的操控,再加上有Honda Civic Type-R及Honda NSX等較冷門車,此試玩當然是不能錯過啊!