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5. Physics and Raycasting

Satheesh Pv1  
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Mumbai, India
 

Physics in Unreal Engine is responsible for the simulation and collision of all physical actors, which means any motion, like falling or applying a force or interaction between them is done using physics. At the time of this book was written, Unreal used PhysX version 3.4, which was used for all simulations.

UE4 includes a built-in high-performance custom physics engine called Chaos Physics Engine, which (at the time of writing this book) is only available through the GitHub source. Chaos Physics is expected to be production-ready in UE4 version 4.26.

Raycasting (also known ...

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