At Develop: Brighton 2025 we explored the creation, maintenance, and analysis of these representations through the optics of the Havok SDKs and tools, with the aim of enhancing the interaction and immersion in a final cohesive game world. youtu.be/SYSPZHVCa0k

Let's take a look back at some of the highlights from the Havok releases for Unreal 5.5 and see how the Havok products changed in that time. www.havok.com/blog/how-hav...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...