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From one car to a fleet: asynchronous physics in UE5 that scales with multithreading

Federico Grenoville — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:30:17 +0000

A while back I wrote about getting stable suspension physics in UE5 by running Chaos on the async physics thread. That post focused on one car and the usual "why your spring-damper explodes when the frame rate dips."

But I wanted something I could reuse across projects — a more robust pattern that lets me manage many vehicles per scene efficiently. So I took the prototype further and turned it into a plugin.

The idea is simple: keep the physics step cleanly decoupled from the Game Thread, and make it scale as vehicle count grows using Chaos::PhysicsParallelFor.

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Taming Chaos: Stable Vehicle Suspensions with Async Physics in UE5

Federico Grenoville — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:24:28 +0000

Has it ever happened to you that a car in a video game suddenly starts vibrating, bouncing, or even flying away uncontrollably?

That’s the classic symptom of a physics simulation tied to the frame rate, or the use of a “wrong” integrator.
In this article, I’ll show you how to avoid this in Unreal Engine 5 by leveraging Chaos’ asynchronous physics, with a concrete example: a car with suspensions designed for a racing game.

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Tick by Tick: How Unreal Engine Simulates Real-World Physics

Federico Grenoville — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:33:57 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered what powers the physics engine in Unreal Engine, and what terms like integration, substepping, or async transform really mean, you’re in the right place!

In this article, I will explore Unreal Engine’s physics system — from numerical integration and substepping, to the new asynchronous physics tick. Understanding these mechanisms is essential for building stable and performant simulations.

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Unleashing Massive Flocks with Unity

Federico Grenoville — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:22:06 +0000

If you're exploring crowd simulations using steering behaviors in Unity, you'll love this!

In this post, I share a technique for simulating massive flocks using simple rules and optimized logic. It’s based on a project I developed and refined over time.

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Let me know what you think — and feel free to share your own Unity experiments!