It would also be helpful to have some general understanding on how physics engines work. This (and future) tutorials have a few prerequisites: some basic C++ skills and the Microsoft Visual C++ IDE. In this tutorial, I intend to give you a brief tour of what you get with the download show you how to set up Havok in a new project, and make a box drop onto a ground surface. For more in depth questions you may be better consulting the extensive Havok documentation and demos or asking at the Intel Havok forum where Havok engineers roam. I am no expert in how to use Havok – or how it works – but I will try to answer any questions to the best of my ability if you have any. Hopefully, this and the upcoming tutorials will be helpful to those wish to do the same as me and/or those who just want to learn Havok. If you are using a different graphics engine and/or want to view what Havok is doing, you can just use the Visual Debugger. I could use the Visual Debugger to do this (I will come to what that is later), but I personally wish to understand how to make Havok communicate with a graphics engine, and I’ve used OSG before. To visualise what we are doing I will be using the 3D Graphics toolkit Open Scene Graph (OSG). For these tutorials, the physics engine is what we will be using and learning, which I will just call ‘Havok’ from now on for brevity. Havok is a widely used middleware in game development, providing technology for animation, behaviour, and physics to name a few. Unfortunately though, the Havok Physics SDK uses its own DirectX based framework. This includes a lot of sample demos which show a lot of varied real-time physics concepts. When I started out with Havok Physics SDK, I was really surprised with the detailed documentation given with the Havok Physics SDK. If you have lost your login details, need a new account or have problems logging in, please. Login profiles to the download portal are available to licensed developers only. Access is via a personal username and password. The download portal is only open to registered Havok SDK developers. I will leave this tutorial here in case it is still useful to someone. Here is the new tutorial for getting started with Havok. EDIT 26/05/14: This information in this tutorial is now out-of-date.

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