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AMD's "tressfx" unveiled; Lara can take care of her own hair [DX11 compute]
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Can you post the link/source please? I'd like to read more.
iNvid02
Member
its nixxes talking about the pc featrures though
http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=133239
Yeah, that's not how it works. Also Agni was quite unoptimized on their first presentation.
RazorbackDB
Member
the problem with those pics is that the hair looks pretty "real", but everything else still looks plastic :/
Angelus Errare
Banned
Someone really should update the OP to inform others it's platform agnostic and works on both AMD and Nvidia cards lol.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
They must have patched it, because the launch benches show a massive FPS hit with PhysX.
Hahaha. I'd been flirting with whether or not I should get Tomb Raider but for some reason this thread has put me over the edge and I have now pre-ordered it. Dat hair.
Backfoggen
Banned
Looks like decent video game hair.
If I didn't the see before/after pics I wouldn't even know what the big deal was.
If I didn't the see before/after pics I wouldn't even know what the big deal was.
AMD is not nvidia where they cockblock feature just cause.
If you think this hair is par for the course for video games, I'd like to see your examples comparable in quality. World of Darkness and Alice: Madness Returns are the only ones that are comparable, the rest are just a blob of a mesh on top a bald head.
There's no statement concerning that matter, isn't it?!
dr_rus
Member
AMD doesn't have any way to block any feature because they don't have any APIs of their own to do it. If they'd have then who knows.
Shadow Hog
Member
Baby steps.
Haunted
Member
That's cool.
razgriz417
Member
where's ma hair vids???
Pretty much. Nvidia spends a lot of coin to screw AMD over as much as possible.
I'm still not buying that. Last year, they said "hey look, this is running on PC!". This year, they're calling it a target render. Until proven otherwise, I'll assume it's just a CG target render.
SirIgbyCeaser
Banned
Modders will probably be able to give her hair to her hips... + a nude mod...
I will call it the alanis morrisett mod.
I will call it the alanis morrisett mod.
Betta Lines
Member
What about all the other videos of them mucking about with the settings? It's definitely realtime.
MickeyKnox
Member
There are plenty of videos out there of them manipulating sliders throughout the demo to change it's look in the traditional tech demo way. Can't be sure about the PS4 thing but the thing shown at e3 last year was legit.
Target render for the PS4, already happening on one 680 @ 1080p/60fps w/MSAA. They released design docs along with further engine demonstration videos where they play with sliders to add/reduce assets/effects.
I don't believe that it's running that well on the ps4, but the PC bit has been confirmed.
E:beaten
mugurumakensei
Member
Eh, the PC was real-time. We've seen them modifying the shaders In real-time. It's completely possible Agni PS4 is target render though given the 680 + core i5/core i7 is roughly twice as powerful as the PS4.
They have already shown the demo next to the CG render they did before the demo. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to compare their engine demo to a CG render if the demo also was a CG render.
There's a bunch of videos showing different parts of the demo running in real-time where they move the camera around and messing with settings. So it has to be running on something and not just be a target render, right?
I remember messing around with similar tech back in 2001 when it was new feature in Softimage. Was pretty impressed. I wondered how long it would take to bring it to real-time.
Why is it so hard to put proper AA into modern games? Is it from the fear of regular people putting it at 8-16x and wondering why the game runs like shit?
Just give us a preview image, an indication on performance hit and a description of that graphical effect. DO NOT do it like CS:GO with that fucking pop up when I wanted to see if every setting was at max.
Felix Lighter
Member
No kidding. I want to be excited about this but I don't want to set myself up for disappointment when we see how it animates. Come on, let's see it in motion!
alexandros
Banned
This looks really, really good. Also, kudos to AMD for not pulling an Nvidia and making this exclusive to their cards.
Maybe increased Tomb Raider PC sales will convince major publishers that it's worth investing a bit more in PC-specific graphical features?
Maybe increased Tomb Raider PC sales will convince major publishers that it's worth investing a bit more in PC-specific graphical features?
nextgeneration
Member
Likewise. Hahah.
Gotcha, I didn't realize there's both a CG render and a real-time version out there.
Punkster_NY
Member
Hipster PC! lol I found my new profile pic. heh
Oh god what.
Again, great to make it a DX11 feature. Now I want a video + benches.
It was clearly realtime. Even exactly as they said it was running in terms of IQ (8xMSAA with FXAA). It had just the right amount of shader aliasing and texture flicker in the HQ 1080p version
