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AMD's "tressfx" unveiled; Lara can take care of her own hair [DX11 compute]
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Yes, as long as it's a DX11 capable card you should be able to run it.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Imagine the gifs... oh my god.
JetBlackPanda
Member
do want! I wonder what kind of hit my 6870 will take
ndawgdrake
Member
So will this effect work on my 6970 or is it limited to 7000 series cards?
MrCunningham
Member
We need some videos first before we can imagine that.
alexandros
Banned
It is compatible with Dx11 cards so you're good.
Exentryk
Member
Didnt they say hair strands work like chains, so probably not like a regular mesh.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Why even go public with this without a demo video.
Do better, AMD.
Do better, AMD.
Felix Lighter
Member
The thing is, the game launches in less than a week. There will be plenty of footage available then and I'm sure they are aware that people want video now. What does not showing footage now accomplish? If it doesn't work well, hyping it at all was a mistake, if it does work well show it off! It's not like it won't be abundantly clear how well the tech works when people own the game in a few days.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Woot! I'm safe with my 7850! Looks like picking Tomb Raider as my free game turned out to be a better choice than I thought it would be.
I'm lowering my expectations, so I won't get disappointed.
But thanks for the elaboration!
IMACOMPUTA
Member
Wow, a physics tech without a video upon announcement?
Really?
EDIT: Ok, this has been posted a bunch already. Sorry.
Really?
EDIT: Ok, this has been posted a bunch already. Sorry.
legacyzero
Banned
Wait, I can use this with Nvidia as well?! AWESOME.
CANT WAIT FOR THIS GAME!
CANT WAIT FOR THIS GAME!
No, it's silly, there should be a video out since the unveil.
Wait you can?
Spazznid
Member
AMD are apparently letting the effect be used by erryone, lest the be what they themselves call Pricks...
Any DX11 card, yes.
No video is just stupid. It looks great, but show it in motion would you kindly?
Dictator93
Member
Double precision... yes.. I highly doubt this uses double precision.
Amen to that, I have an AMD card and while this looks great the games I play still have a ton of slowdown with shadows in some games, even those that have the gaming unlocked logo on the box
GHG
Member
Its really good for the industry that AMD are keeping this tech open and not closing it off to being exclusive on their platform (which they could easily do...) even despite them developing this tech.
Think I will definitely support AMD during my next upgrade (Fall 2014/Early 2015) in some way whether thats through buying a GPU of theirs or even going for their CPU platfrom.
Think I will definitely support AMD during my next upgrade (Fall 2014/Early 2015) in some way whether thats through buying a GPU of theirs or even going for their CPU platfrom.
RobotsAnger
Member
Guess we'll have to wait till march 5th for a video -_-
This "tech" is open.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
No one is going to make a hardware decision for TR until the benchmarks come out. AMD has no reason to rush out video and I'm sure they're still working on drivers for this feature.
I wonder how open is AMD with this algorithm. Do devs need to sign something to use it, or its quite free to use as long as You have some sort of partnership with AMD.
If later, it should appear in next version of CryEngine 3, if former we will need wait for Crytek to write their own algorithm ;\
If later, it should appear in next version of CryEngine 3, if former we will need wait for Crytek to write their own algorithm ;\
KojiKnight
Member
We don't know the info yet... but AMD is kinda struggling to stay relevant (which saddens me aside from one gaming laptop, all of my graphics have been ATi/AMD for almost as long as I've been building PCs... Before that, it was 3DFX... Voodoo 2 fo' life!). If they made it proprietary (AMD cards only) it would simply not be used. AMD's video card marketshare is smaller than nvidia's by quite a bit (according to Steam surveys). Now, requiring it to be licensed... well... that seems a possibility, but then again I'm pretty sure physx has to be licensed (or have your game be heavily branded by Nvidia) so I can see them going that route... but if it's seemless to the end user no matter which card they have, licensing to game developers would work fine.
SpinningBirdKick
Banned
Hair physics is a genuine unique selling point these days?
Really?
I have no words...
Really?
I have no words...
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The door is that way ->
I'm all for any extra effects that add to immersion. That means environment and character detail.
KojiKnight
Member
Remember, direct compute and OpenCL are both nothing new... developers have been free to use them since day 1. Part of it is money hatting. Nvidia tossing money at devs to use their tech so people are forced to buy their cards to get the best graphics. The other part is simply that from a pure product standpoint, nvidia has been winning in the graphics card business for many years and it's easier to use features on a product that most people use.
StoppedInTracks
Member
It's a unique feature of the PC version of the game - no console version has it. I think that is enough.
You know that people work hard to make videogames right? If this hair tech is the best hair ever, they deserved to be praised for it.
Ever since their inception 3D videogames have had shitty looking hair... So yes, having realistic looking hair is a big step forward and a selling point.
Pretty much yeah. Hair looked like shit until today (based on the assumption that tessFX looks good in motion).
Its been a holy grail for in-game graphics for a long time now.
BlockheadBrown
Member
It's announced and there's no video of this?
thesuperfunk
Member
Bring forth the gifs!
SpinningBirdKick
Banned
I can appreciate a good bit of tech as good as the next nerd/geek.
I just find it kind of sad that with all this horsepower available the best thing the developers decided effort should be expended upon was improving things that pretty much amounts to fluff in the big scheme of things. Yet we're likely left with the same tired old gameplay mechanics that we're been saddled with for generations now.
Apologies for disrupting the thread, this wasn't really the best place for my whining on the creative state of the industry.
As you were...
I just find it kind of sad that with all this horsepower available the best thing the developers decided effort should be expended upon was improving things that pretty much amounts to fluff in the big scheme of things. Yet we're likely left with the same tired old gameplay mechanics that we're been saddled with for generations now.
Apologies for disrupting the thread, this wasn't really the best place for my whining on the creative state of the industry.
As you were...
Felix Lighter
Member
You are right that it will likely never impact gameplay, though i wouldn't be shocked if there were some gameplay applications, but it has been such a prevalent nagging issue graphically that it has certainly impacted the types and look of the characters in games.
Angelus Errare
Banned
AMD doesn't have a proprietary API so they kinda have to...their only option is DirectCompute.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
pictures, but people have seen it in motion
http://www.techspot.com/news/51765-amd-unveils-tressfx-hair-rendering-technology-pics.html
but its an early version of it (?). Games with it built in mind will be better