Physics for Director MX 2004 10.1

Here's the situation. I own Director MX 2004 10.1 and I need to do some physics stuff. I developed a nice simulation using Havok that works great in a projector, but it lost one critical functionality in Shockwave that I can't seem to resolve (collisions involving repositioned fixed rigid bodies act as if they were never moved). I know Havok is dead and Ageia PhysX is what I should be using, but I really don't want to upgrade to 11.5 just for Ageia. I was hoping to hold out until D12.
Is it possible to get Ageia for Director 10.1?
Are there any old Havok gurus out there thay know how to move a fixed rigid body and have it repond to collisions in the new location?
Do I have to bite the bullet and buy D11.5?

Maybe Dee McDee is my only salvation!
I have not found anything about Physx and Director.
I use 3D Max with Physx and I know how to export from Max with W3D and import it into Director.
I don’t know what procedure to use to save the physical reactions.
When I save in w3d I have no physical reaction only animations.
Questions:
1) How can I do to import and maintain the physical reactions in Director?
I would, for example, bringing down a wall and then import it into Director.
2) Really Havok doesn’t work in Director 11.5?
I have imported an old movie made with Havok inside Director 11.5 and I make the projector and it works.
Sorry for my bad English.
I don't understand what do you means to "callback" in your previous message.
Thank you very much for your attention.

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"Andrew Morton" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fru1b6$j0n$[email protected]..
> game_dev wrote:
>> I can not find this option in General section
>>
>> Does this mean that rosetta is not installed on my
PC?
>
> [I know that strictly speaking a Mac is a PC, but could
you please write
> Mac when you're referring to a Mac PC? Ta.]
>
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> Mac.
>
> To open the .sit file, you may need to install Stuffit
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>
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffitexpander/download.html
>
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>
> Oh, and the current version of Tiger is 10.4.11.
>
> Andrew
>

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