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UPDATE:


http://blogs.amd.com/play/tressfx/

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http://blogs.amd.com/play/tressfx/

TRESSFX: A NEW FRONTIER OF REALISM IN PC GAMING

People are speculating it's AMD's answer to nvidia's "PhysX". http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=34663235 Possibly hair/character physics?

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Hm...

"all new & top secret DX11 effect"?

Could it be..? Physics on Lara's hair?

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If they're calling it Tress there's a good chance it's hair physics, since that's...what tress means...

Tresse is the French word for hair braid, so it sounds like hair physics to me.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Next gen is all about that hair and old man textures. Gotta consume that 8GB RAM somehow.

(Since PS4/Nextbox are using AMD, they better have some of AMD's awesomeness in it. They better~!)

 

[Felix Lighter]

Hmmm... I hope it isn't more proprietary bullshit but it's hard to imagine AMD putting too much effort to ensure that it runs well on Nvidiia hardware. Good hair physics would be nice though.

 

[Culex]

If it's hair / cloth rendering, I'm all for it. This has been a severely lacking tech for years.

 

[Dec]

The teaser really implies hair physics. Loved that stuff in Alice so I'm pretty excited.

 

[EMT0]

Someone get the hype ball rolling with 'AMD's back!' gifs, and put in Nvidia getting socked in the face.

 

[Derrick01]

People are speculating it's AMD's answer to nvidia's "PhysX".

Will it be as useless and resource heavy though?

 

[angular graphics]

Hm...

"all new & top secret DX11 effect"?

Could it be..? Physics on Lara's hair?

 

[legacyzero]

I'm OK with this. Especially on consoles if it's going to be a big thing. I wish Nvidia/devs would pay more attention to PhysX.

Will it be as useless and resource heavy though?

This is also my question.

 

[RoboPlato]

The teaser really implies hair physics. Loved that stuff in Alice so I'm pretty excited.

Same here. Hair rendering is something that sorely needs to be improved. I assume this is going to be a feature of the 8000 series?

 

[dragonelite]

Fuck AMD and Nvidia with coming up with hardware specific libraries instead of just using a open solution that can work on all cards..........

 

[matmanx1]

Next gen is all about that hair and old man textures. Gotta consume that 8GB RAM somehow.

Haha, funnily enough I joked with some friends that I was watching the Sony conference with that every demo or video seemed to have some incredibly detailed old man rendered on the screen at some point. Old man textures, indeed.

But yes, I too hope for improvements in rendering hair and related physics. It's time to move out of the PS2 era in that regard.

 

[Walshicus]

AMD: "This is *my* laboratoire!"

 

[Iacobellis]

Will this make way into the 720/PS4?

 

[eot]

Hm...

"all new & top secret DX11 effect"?

Could it be..? Physics on Lara's hair?

The more things change the more they stay the same.
I remember people making a big deal over Lara's pony tail being animated in TR2.

 

[Eideka]

AMD waking up, finally.

Nvidia step your game up now, and don't be cheap bastards on the VRAM amount.

Best regards, Eideka, FR.

 

[lmpaler]

All wrestling titles since N64 could've used this

 

[angular graphics]

Will this make way into the 720/PS4?

We don't know what this is, so.. maybe?

 

[Cynar]

The more things change the more they stay the same.
I remember people making a big deal over Lara's pony tail being animated in TR2.

hahaha I was thinking the same thing. We'll probably always see people making a big deal about it, no matter how far we advance.

 

[XtremeXpider]

DirectX 12/Durango please.

 

[GHG]

I'm waiting for the inevitable hack that will enable Nvidia users to have this feature as well at better performance levels.

 

[shinobi602]

Actual hair/cloth physics makes me hard.

Hope PS4/Nextbox can tackle this tech.

 

[clav]

Mildly interested.

Still waiting for June to build a new PC rig as my old LGA 775 motherboard died.

I will switch back to AMD if their new architecture is best performance/buck ratio.

 

[RobotsAnger]

I'm down for this!

 

[EatChildren]

And I bet my nVidia card wont be able to activate the features.

Great. Now I know how AMD users feel.

 

[Shahadan]

David Cage We need better hair.

 

[Atolm]

Enough of this propietary BS war. We need open standards.

 

[Metalmurphy]

Will I need a new card for this?

 

[Binabik15]

Next gen is all about that hair and old man textures. Gotta consume that 8GB RAM somehow.

(Since PS4/Nextbox are using AMD, they better have some of AMD's awesomeness in it. They better~!)

*shakes fist*

Squeeze that special sauce all over my GPU.

 

[dan999]

I'm guessing Durango will have this. Didn't 360 GPU have features that wasn't out on the PC market yet?

 

[Brerlappin]

Someon post the Alice:MR hair gifs. They did it first.

 

[Alo81]

If every game could have hair tech like Alice: Madness Returns, I would be a very happy consumer.

 

[Metalmurphy]

If that first banner is a real time image, then Alice has got nothing on this.

 

[Alo81]

 

[XtremeXpider]

I'm guessing Durango will have this. Didn't 360 GPU have features that wasn't out on the PC market yet?

Yes, VMX128 was added.

 

[Stet]

And I bet my nVidia card wont be able to activate the features.

Great. Now I know how AMD users feel.

Can't wait until we start getting vid-card exclusive games.

 

[Perkel]

And I bet my nVidia card wont be able to activate the features.

Great. Now I know how AMD users feel.

BURN nvidia scum !


Hair physic and cloth physic is my personal holy grail of gaming. I want it so bad.

 

[Lime]

oh man, proper hair physics in the coming time would be so great! So far Alice: Madness Returns is the only example I can think of with decent hair:

EDIT: Alo81 knows what's up!

 

[Piggus]

Actual hair/cloth physics makes me hard.

Hope PS4/Nextbox can tackle this tech.

Since PS4's GPU can dedicate any amount of resouces to compute (like physics) it already can do stuff like this.

 

[Stet]

If they're calling it Tress there's a good chance it's hair physics, since that's...what tress means...

 

[TheExodu5]

Tresse is the French word for hair braid, so it sounds like hair physics to me.

 

[sflufan]

I'd love to see this used for Geralt's manly mane and beard in The Witcher 3!

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Haha, funnily enough I joked with some friends that I was watching the Sony conference with that every demo or video seemed to have some incredibly detailed old man rendered on the screen at some point. Old man textures, indeed.

That's because they are harder to model, texture, and animate than bald space marines. You want to show off your talent.

 

[Felix Lighter]

I'm an AMD user right now but when I'm purchasing a new graphics card, I want to base my decision on performance and price, not which proprietary physic api my card runs. Stop this nonsense and someone develop a good open standard so these worthwhile features actually catch on.

 

[Perkel]

Tresse is the French word for hair braid, so it sounds like hair physics to me.

Well picture is all about hair so....... FUCK YEAH hair physic finally !!!

Now someone implement proper cloth physic. I want finally in game to wear stuff.

 

[Lime]

What are the chances developers will even begin to utilize such a feature when they can rely on an easily modelled bald head for their (white) main characters?

I'm an AMD user right now but when I'm purchasing a new graphics card, I want to base my decision on performance and price, not which proprietary physic api my card runs. Stop this nonsense and someone develop a good open standard so these worthwhile features actually catch on.

Completely agreed. Proprietary features are bullshit - stuff like PhysX or supposedly this feature should be open for all games to utilize.

 

[Dec]

Since PS4's GPU can dedicate any amount of resouces to compute (like physics) it already can do stuff like this.

Performance of physics engines thus far hasn't been the greatest. Time will tell how this goes, as we haven't really seen anything like that teaser image outside of tech demos rendering nothing but a head and hair.

 

[Nirolak]

What are the chances developers will even begin to utilize such a feature when they can rely on an easily modelled bald head for their (white) main characters?



Completely agreed. Proprietary features are bullshit - stuff like PhysX or supposedly this feature should be open for all games to utilize.

I feel bald hair isn't overly common these days, but short hair that doesn't really need to react to physics is.

 

[Felix Lighter]

What are the chances developers will even begin to utilize such a feature when they can rely on an easily modelled bald head for their (white) main characters?

I imagine if it's easy to implement, quality hair is something that would instantly stand out visually for marketing material, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it used IF it is easily implemented.

 

[angular graphics]

If they're calling it Tress there's a good chance it's hair physics, since that's...what tress means...

Tresse is the French word for hair braid, so it sounds like hair physics to me.

Oops, I didn't know that