AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26

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bluexy BATMEOWN (editor) total posts: 836 since: Jan 2012
	Log in to remove this sponsored message AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26 Rory Young - Monday, February 25, 2013 9:52am (PST) Like (1) +my favourites (1) "Render. Rinse. Repeat." The future of hair is here. AMD launched a new teaser site today with the headline, "TressFX: A New Frontier of PC Realism" and an unveiling date of February 26 for their new tech. "Render. Rinse. Repeat." Just off of word association, along with the teaser image found in the header, it's clear AMD's got some new hair technology they're excited about showing. Resident techy and our communications guru here at Neo, Mr. Gabe, says the word is AMD's got some fresh particle effect and tessellation systems to handle realistic hair volume. Much preferable to, say, typical polygonal LEGO hair. Obviously, this is one of the reasons male protagonists are preferred in video games -- short hair. Good to see AMD taking steps to break the status quo. Look forward to more news on Tuesday, tomorrow, when AMD unveils TressFX in all of its flowing, beautiful glory. Hopefully with a mind-blowing tech demo involving a space marine taking off his helmet and revealing his luxurious locks, gracefully blowing in the wind. Or, you know, Lara Croft. That would work too. Source: AMD Section: PC Games View original news article news
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magsasaka true seeker total posts: 1051 since: Jul 2009	Feb 25, 13 at 11:20am ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	i was just thinking of hair physics in games just moments ago!! brought up by disney pixar's brave. i heard it took years to develop the program that dealt with it tho look at the protagonist's hair
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GabrielZ666 unwashed heathen (guest) IP: Logged	Feb 25, 13 at 12:30pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	WTF neoseeker? First nVidia now it's AMD, make your mind!
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bluexy BATMEOWN (editor) total posts: 836 since: Jan 2012	Feb 25, 13 at 12:33pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	Sorry folk. I didn't drink my coffee this morning and totally wrote the article about Nvidia initially. It's quite clearly an announcement from AMD. No idea why I made such an odd association. Should be fixed, and by all means let me know if there are any errors and I'll fix them immediately. Tech isn't my specialty, obviously. No excuses though. Pretty big, dumb mistake and I apologize for it. - Rory
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Not DedValve unwashed heathen (guest) IP: Logged	Feb 25, 13 at 1:14pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	Just imagine all the glorious hair pieces in future RPG's running this drools
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Wakaman Whoop De Whoop, Whoop De Whoop Whoop! Seeketh Maximus total posts: 5935 since: Jul 2010	Feb 25, 13 at 1:22pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	Finally(AND THE ROCK MEANS FINALLY!) tech that'll do Leon's magnificent hair justice. ------------------- quote Asyilem What? Me? Of course not. I only violate Wakaman's posts. Join the Vita Forum/FF XIII-2 Forum/Resident Evil 6 Forum/Dragon's Dogma Forum/New Super Mario Bros. 2 Forum
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Paranoid Android Der Erlkönig s-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1673 since: Oct 2010	Feb 25, 13 at 1:28pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	That looks absolutely incredible. :0 ------------------- Dreams be the ashes, burns and thrashing in the wind Flying out the burning bush attached to sister's hand, who whispers *word* - Blue Scholars
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Blue Neon Sla-nthra-llica dangerous total posts: 154 since: Apr 2008	Feb 25, 13 at 1:47pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	I must say. AMD are just opposing all of Nvidias benefits now. AMD were your go to for cheap good performance cards. Nvidia had the same sort of idea - costing a bit more, and they had A LOT of better technologies making them more worth while if you have the extra cash. Now these guys just have to make the decisions harder XD ------------------- Poseidon CPU:i7-2600k @ 4.3GHz RAM:16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 Mobo:MSI P67A-GD53-B3 GPU:EVGA GTX570 HD SC Case:HAF-X HDD:240GB SSD, 3x HDD
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lKasHl just getting started! total posts: 130 since: Dec 2007	Feb 25, 13 at 6:08pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	quote bluexy Sorry folk. I didn't drink my coffee this morning and totally wrote the article about Nvidia initially. It's quite clearly an announcement from AMD. No idea why I made such an odd association. Should be fixed, and by all means let me know if there are any errors and I'll fix them immediately. Tech isn't my specialty, obviously. No excuses though. Pretty big, dumb mistake and I apologize for it. - Rory Seems like a pretty logical mistake considering NVIDIA released their own hair demos not too long ago and AMD rarely markets its tech demonstrations Glad to see them stepping up now that they're basically championing next gen. quote Blue Neon I must say. AMD are just opposing all of Nvidias benefits now. AMD were your go to for cheap good performance cards. Nvidia had the same sort of idea - costing a bit more, and they had A LOT of better technologies making them more worth while if you have the extra cash. Now these guys just have to make the decisions harder XD NVIDIA has always had fancy tech but realistically its never been implemented into a significant enough amount of titles in a meaningful way that would merit thought in a purchase. Just go for whoevers offering the best performance/price, although AMD might be stepping ahead if they optimise console games for their cards.
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Praetorian_Lord the Hoople Neolithic total posts: 6419 neopoints: 177 since: Sep 2007	Feb 25, 13 at 6:37pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	Thought this article was brilliant until I realised it was serious. Hair graphics, really? ------------------- That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die
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nipsen dangerous total posts: 162 since: Nov 2012	Feb 25, 13 at 7:20pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	^ It's... one of the most difficult things to animate believably. Hair. ------------------- "You're rhetoric is beyond the scope of any stable mind. "
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lKasHl just getting started! total posts: 130 since: Dec 2007	Feb 25, 13 at 8:34pm ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	^^and it has implications for all forms of particle physics and rendering
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KainDog MLP>>>MLG forum junky total posts: 81 since: Jul 2009	Feb 26, 13 at 10:05am ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	The hair will have more polygons than the actual entity is how I'm reading this. ------------------- There's always one, is it you?
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bluexy BATMEOWN (editor) total posts: 836 since: Jan 2012	Feb 26, 13 at 10:07am ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	Kaindog Aren't you willing to trade 5-10 FPS for beautiful hair?
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nipsen dangerous total posts: 162 since: Nov 2012	Feb 26, 13 at 10:37am ^ re: AMD teases TressFX, a 'new frontier of realism in PC gaming' to be unveiled February 26
	It's not.. that complicated on the high level. When you can use complex math (past shader logic), you can have fairly complex models and wave-simulations running on the object collections - but only render the visible parts. And not - for example - the individual strands of hairs, with particle physics pushing each strand back and forth, and so on. Because that would be extremely heavy. Even if updating or "flexing" strands of hairs in the mesh/model isn't actually that expensive. It's similar to the way the fur was done in Shadow of The Colossus, or the fur we were kind of expecting in The Last Guardian. Same principle they use in WipeoutHD and GT5 (much more complex models in the game than what's rendered - the rendered detail is dynamic, adjusted to what the rasterizer actually can complete.. GT5 has a few physics details that are much more complex than what you can do with directcompute every frame as well..). The irony is that the level of this is pretty low compared to what could have been made on the ps3. ------------------- "You're rhetoric is beyond the scope of any stable mind. "
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