Unity physics

Make Your Game Move Like Life with NVIDIA® PhysX®

Unity contains the powerful NVIDIA® PhysX® Physics Engine. Create immersive and visceral scenes with clothes and hair that blow in the wind; tires that screech and burn; walls that crumble; glass that shatters, and weapons that inflict major damage!

NVIDIA® PhysX®

Great Looking Threads for Your Characters

Create two kinds of cloth with Unity:

  • Fully physically simulated Interactive Cloth interacts fully with the rest of the environment.
  • Skinned Cloth, an optimized solution to handle high poly animated cloth pieces for characters. Use it for accurate-looking animated shirts, trousers, skirts, capes and hair.
Interactive Cloth
Skinned Cloth

Life-Like Action Packed into Every Scene

Create movement in your scenes with:

  • Soft Bodies, such as semi-deflated beach balls that interact realistically with the environment
  • Rigidbodies, that enable the objects in your scenes to act under the control of physics. A rigidbody can receive forces and torque to make your objects move in a realistic way with no scripting required.
  • A ragdoll wizard that lets you implement a full ragdoll from an animated character in seconds. Tweak the ragdoll as needed for unique behaviors.
  • Joints: Hinges, springs, ball-sockets, character limbs, and the fully-customizable Configurable Joint. Make them breakable to allow emergent game play.

Fierce Racing Games and Mountable Vehicles Made Easier

  • Wheel ColliderUnity has a dedicated Wheel Collider that accurately simulates the traction model of real car tires.

Check out our Car Tutorial

Fierce Racing Games and Mountable Vehicles Made Easier

Asset Store

Boom, crash, screech, splat! Find ready-made scripts for awesome physics in the Asset Store.

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Online Store

The Online Store stocks Unity Pro and all Basic and Pro add-ons. You can also purchase Team License for organizing your development team, or Premium Support, for prompt replies to questions that arise while developing with Unity.

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Unity Resources

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