I'm going to assume that screenshot is of that hairworks tech, but since you're taking a picture of hair in motion, it's going to look weird.
Also, since the wolf is white, you wouldn't see the shine that you do on the grey wolf, at that angle.
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I'm going to assume that screenshot is of that hairworks tech, but since you're taking a picture of hair in motion, it's going to look weird.
Also, since the wolf is white, you wouldn't see the shine that you do on the grey wolf, at that angle.
Ewww what happened to this?
Well, that is a still shot and the fur could be shaking as it was taken. That is probably what makes it look so disheveled.
ScepticMatt
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Well that CA is fucking terrible, especially in the last shot. Good think you can turn it off.
Ewww what happened to this?
I think effects like that really need motion to sell them.
So we have a comparison shot of the non hairworks verison of the white wolfs? Would be interesting to see.
His Majesty
Banned
Love the small details like the blood dripping from his mouthcorner.
I don't see CA there, just depth of field. In which direction do you see the colours separating to create the blur?
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Ewww what happened to this?
It's a current gen wolf, so it's between last gen wolf and next gen wolf.
SpacePirate Ridley
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That its clearly not in motion?Ewww what happened to this?
Come on guys, its like the ubi downgrade shitfest have made you oversensitive to everything and people are seeying rhings where theres really nothing.
RazorbackDB
Member
look at the teeth, you can actually see it all around the hair too.
ScepticMatt
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Portugeezer
Member
Ewww what happened to this?
One is a still image, one is animated.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Motion/still whatever, the poly mesh clashes something fucking shocking with the hair shader around the eyes. Doesn't blend at all.
Aha, thanks
Dictator93
Member
Ewww what happened to this?
Anisotropic highlights are more obvious in motion, assuming they are there.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
teeth
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Ahh gotcha I see it. Do you guys really notice the red? Is it something immediately apparent to you without having to zoom in?
shinobi602
Member
I don't really notice it in games at all either really. Bloodborne is legitimately the first where I noticed it on my own without seeing others point it out. Shit's bad there.
CyberPunked
Member
One's a still image, and one's a video?Ewww what happened to this?
It's not really the red that bothers me so much. It's the blur that occurs due to the color shifting. It's not a nice looking blur like a quality DoF effect. It's an IQ ruining blur.
Payday 2, Dying Light are examples I can think of which were very noticeable.
Yea, it's at least a fairly tame use of the effect here in TW3. I'll still be quite happy to turn it off, though.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
So it is being used as an AA solution or a DOF one?
ScepticMatt
Member
I immediately notice the "blurriness". For fringing it depends on content, but it was very apparent around the teeth.
The first clue that something has CA is that my eyes have a certain amount of difficulty focusing on the object, like they are not exactly sure where its boundaries are.
Neither I don't think. It's just an 'artistic' choice made by the devs when they want their game to look a certain way.
Neither. It is being used to make it more "real".
It's being used as an 'artistic' choice to simulate a shitty camera lens.
Though I wouldn't be surprised if it's used to hide bad aliasing in certain titles like Bloodborne.
Exactly.
Dictator93
Member
Neither. It is just shit.
Real CA in real life is a function of depth of field unless you are looking through the worst camera lens ever. You should see CA in depth of field... it should not be an effect separate from it that is applied to the whole image independent of depth.
Notice how this image from a real camera only has CA in the unfocused regions.
So now it's downgraded again?
jim2point0
Banned
WE CAN TURN OFF THE CA. Chill, guys 
It's clearly not.
They probably had to optimize the fur a bit. I can't imagine it will look as fine as it does in the GIF. Either that, or we'll have a few settings for the fur quality (ideal).
It's clearly not.
They probably had to optimize the fur a bit. I can't imagine it will look as fine as it does in the GIF. Either that, or we'll have a few settings for the fur quality (ideal).
Regurgitated
Banned
You won't see it in 4k though.
I personally never understood why this game's graphics are lauded by the community. Better than the previous game, definitely, better than say Skyrim... well yes but to my eyes hardly by some huge margin. I find the characters have that very 'gamey' look to them and the colour palette isn't very realistic, and also comes across like one of the old Fable games or something.
When you see the lighting in GTAV even on the last ten consoles it simply looks better to me. Here the lighting really knocks it down quite a bit. Maybe it's the style they're after, but to me it looks like a half generational leap. Still looks great and for such a huge open world game of course it's very nice, just not quite what I expect next gen to be at.
When you see the lighting in GTAV even on the last ten consoles it simply looks better to me. Here the lighting really knocks it down quite a bit. Maybe it's the style they're after, but to me it looks like a half generational leap. Still looks great and for such a huge open world game of course it's very nice, just not quite what I expect next gen to be at.
viveks86
Member
Care to explain why?
jim2point0
Banned
Lighthouse from trailer is at the top of a hill.
Lighhouse from screenshot is at the bottom of a hill.
Yeah, the use of chromatic aberration or color fringing is stupid and annoying. Luckily it can be turned off from the menu without having to edit configuration files or use a third-party modification.
The unshaded grass in the attacking wolves screen also bothers me a lot. There's no self-shadowing or ambient occlusion.
The unshaded grass in the attacking wolves screen also bothers me a lot. There's no self-shadowing or ambient occlusion.
ScepticMatt
Member
According to Epic games artists, it's to make computer generated look less "clean", in the same vein as grain, dust or lens flare.
So cute.
Yea, that's why I said 'a lot like that', rather than 'exactly like that'. I'll be happy if it's close.
Dictator93
Member
I wonder if the fur (Nvidia Hair) can run on a physX GPU. If so... I would consider setting that up.