Can we run Havok inside a Web Worker?

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Here’s currently what I have:

  • Static ground (gray) and ramp (red)
  • Kinematic platform (green)
  • Dynamic boxes (yellow) and 3rd-person player (blue)

There are 1000 always-active dynamic yellow boxes that can collide with each other

A SharedArrayBuffer is used to share data between the main thread and the Web Worker

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EDIT: Please watch videos in the post below instead

I’m on a rather old laptop, and recording with OBS Studio definitely caused a hit to performance. As shown in the videos, the FPS was

  • ~30 without Worker
  • ~90 with Worker

However, the physics step compute time was noticeably slower in a Worker with OBS Studio recording. It’s ~10X faster without OBS Studio recording

You may also notice that the physics is slowing down as it’s struggling to keep up with realtime - related to our chat in your post, @riven04 :slight_smile:

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