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Official Havok Account. Providing battle tested Navigation, Cloth, and Physics middleware to the games industry and beyond for more than 20 years.

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Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 12d

Havok is proud to be sponsoring the event and we can't wait to learn about different games studios approach AI.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 12d

Don't miss our session @conference.aiandgames.com in November.
Richard will take you through how Havok uses Cross-Platform determinism to save time, reduce frustration and simplify debugging.

AI and Games Conference @conference.aiandgames.com · 12d

Debugging Across Time and Platforms: The Power of Determinism by Richard Kogelnig (Havok).
Learn how cross-platform determinism makes debugging faster, easier & less painful across consoles & PC.
🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/gamea...
#AIandGames #GameDev #Determinism

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 16d

Next week we will be attending NEXUS Dublin Games Conference.
We're looking forward to a great event and connecting with studios from across the industry.
Keep an eye out for Havok folks at the event if you have any questions about how Havok could super-power your game.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 19d

Bringing you:
• More natural trajectories
• Smooth prediction of future trajectories
• Help for animation systems like motion matching for more natural output
Smooth path following is available from Havok 2025.1. Find out more: www.havok.com/blog/havok-2...

Havok 2025.1 Release Highlights

Including new package distribution, enhanced visual fidelity of cloth, and smooth pathing for more believable character navigation

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 19d

Game AI and NPC movement isn’t only about getting from A to B. An optimal path can be stilted and unnatural if a character follows it directly.
Bring believable paths to your navigation system using the Havok Smooth Path Solver and Smooth Path Follower.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 23d

Are you at Tokyo Game Show 2025?
Looking for a solution with:
• Fast reliable performance on all major gaming platforms
• Full compatibility with Unreal Engine
• A decades long history of robust flexible products
Come chat to us! Find out how Havok can super-power your game!

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 26d

Reach out to us through our website to set up a meeting or catch one of the Havok team during the event, we’ll be happy to chat about how Havok can super-power your game.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · 26d

Next week we will be attending Unreal Fest Stockholm!
It's a great chance to talk to developers and studios about how Havok for Unreal can empower you to push the boundaries of what your games can achieve.
#unrealFestStockholm #unrealEngine

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 8

To find out more about the new features and improvements in Havok 2025.1 across all products, check out the release highlights on the Havok website www.havok.com/blog/havok-2...

Havok 2025.1 Release Highlights

Including new package distribution, enhanced visual fidelity of cloth, and smooth pathing for more believable character navigation

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sim Pose Skinning for Performance:
When real-time cloth simulation is disabled, such as during LOD transitions or states like time freeze, the system can fall back to skinning the cloth using a cached simulation pose. This maintains visual consistency while improving performance

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Teleport and Pose Warp:
Handles sudden, discontinuous movements, such as teleporting a character to a new location or snapping to a new pose without blending. This ensures cloth behaves naturally even when the animation jumps.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Key use cases include:
Transfer Motion:
Ideal for fast, continuous movements, whether at the root level (e.g. a character spinning quickly on the spot) or at a local bone level (e.g. a rapid leg kick). It helps eliminate simulation artifacts caused by quick directional changes.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sudden shifts in character poses can introduce unwanted animation velocity into the simulation, resulting in distracting or unrealistic motion that breaks immersion. The new Skin Sim Cloth Pose feature helps smooth those transitions and maintain visual fidelity.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Havok Cloth saw the introduction of the Skin Sim Cloth Pose feature in the Havok 2025.1 release in July.
This feature enhances realism in cinematics by preventing unnatural cloth behavior during abrupt animation changes.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 1

This new model helps the performance of destruction scenarios, by allowing piles of debris to become inactive much sooner than in previous versions, while still looking natural and without visual artefacts.

To find out more about changes in Havok 2025.1, see: www.havok.com/blog/havok-2...

Havok 2025.1 Release Highlights

Including new package distribution, enhanced visual fidelity of cloth, and smooth pathing for more believable character navigation

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Havok Physics saw improvements to the settling of piles of objects in our 2025.1 release, earlier in the summer.

A new friction model improves stability of piles of objects, eliminating residual motion that previously could keep bodies moving slowly and preventing deactivation.

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 28

This weekend (August 30th) we'll be attending Game Makers Scramble in Tokyo.

Drop by the Havok booth to chat about how our technology helps power games across the industry.

gamemakers.jp/scramble2025

【8月30日（土）東京開催】ゲームづくりが楽しく学べる無料イベント「ゲームメーカーズスクランブル2025」イベント情報（随時更新）｜ゲームメーカーズ

【8/28（木）更新内容】・なんでも相談所のタイムテーブル・フロアマップ公開【8/8（金）更新内容】・イベント参加申込枠を1,000人に拡張【8/7（木）更新内容】・全体タイムテーブル公開・第二弾講演情報公開（全講演情報が公開）【7/12（土）更新内容】・イベント参加申込枠を700人に拡張

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Havok Physics for Unreal powers VOID/BREAKER bringing fast, reliable, performance to deliver a chaotic destruction spectacle! Congratulations to @voidbreakergame.bsky.social on your launch to early access

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 21

We introduced some of the latest features in Havok Physics for Unreal and Havok Navigation for Unreal during CEDEC 2025.
To find out more and learn about how these features can be applied to your game, check out the recording of the session here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQ1...

【CEDEC2025】最新のHavokの機能を紹介：高精細なシミュレーションをいろいろな意味で低コストで

YouTube video by CEDECチャンネルYouTube版

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Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 18

We're excited to be a part of bringing Chief Tech Omnium to Gamescom. This exclusive event is a gathering of executives from top gaming startups to discuss challenges, share knowledge, and grow a community of world-class game creators.
We can't wait to see you there!

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 14

You can get an idea of what's new in the latest Havok SDK from our 2025.1 Release Announce www.havok.com/blog/havok-2...

Havok 2025.1 Release Highlights

Including new package distribution, enhanced visual fidelity of cloth, and smooth pathing for more believable character navigation

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 14

Next week we will be attending Devcom, along with a number of other events happening around the conference throughout the week.
Keep an eye out for us around Cologne, and reach out if you want to set up a sync about how Havok can super-power your game!

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 11

Havok Cloth を使ってキャラクターの衣服シミュレーションを実現するためにはどういう作業が必要？外部に公開されることが少ないセットアップのワークフローを詳しく紹介いたします。

Maya での仕込み作業、Havok Cloth のセットアップツールの使い方、UEで読み込むためのデータエクスポート/インポートと、一通りの流れを実際にセットアップを担当したテクニカルアーティストが解説します。

Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 11

We joined Creek and River at CEDEC 2025 to talk about using Havok Cloth.
Join us as we walk through the entire process, including preparation in Maya, how to use Havok Cloth's setup tool and data export/import for Unreal.
Find the session on youtube here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cODy...

【CEDEC2025】Havok Cloth を使ったクロスシミュレーション設定ワークフローのご紹介

YouTube video by CEDECチャンネルYouTube版

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Havok @havokbuzz.bsky.social · Aug 7

glTF Ecosystem Forum at SIGGRAPH 2025

www.khronos.org/events/gltf-...

glTF Ecosystem Forum at Siggraph 2025

Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing

www.khronos.org