Unknown Soldier
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This is the revolution we were promised?
AMD's "tressfx" unveiled; Lara can take care of her own hair [DX11 compute]
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Angelus Errare
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It'll probably work on Nvidia cards. Though there IS a standard in OpenCL...it just a mess atm. Which is rather sad because it allowed CUDA to take off, despite CUDA being younger than OpenCL.
RazorbackDB
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AC3 and FC3 had great hair, but this looks better and i suppose it will look even better physics wise
For hair fetishists such as I, this is the revolution we deserve.
Of course it is. AMD will not hold gamers hostage with proprietary tech.
nextgeneration
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Love to see what kind of performance hit the hair has on frame rates. LOL. And going to be interesting to see how this game runs on both AMD and Nvidia cards. I'm assuming we'll get better performance from AMD cards for the game.
No worries it's not exclusive to AMD cards. A moderator on the Eidos forums claims that it runs well on a GTX680.
nextgeneration
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Let's hope this is the case.
I guess the next step now is to render different styles of hair. 
It's not: the blog post states it's achieved via DirectCompute (Microsoft's DX10/11 GPGPU API).
That's the mane revolutionary feature, yes.
toastyToast
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Maybe Lara's hair grows increasingly dishevelled as the game progresses like Spec Ops but for hair
.nextgeneration
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Lol, I want to play the game now because of this. Don't feel bad.
Actually, I think this is completely justified, since we've never had good rendered hair at all this generation. Lots of bald marines and hair that looks like crap. We finally have good hair now!!!shiftplusone
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so this will be available day 1 for Tomb Raider?
I was already getting the PC version and I guess new hair tech makes it that much better?
Its hard to care until we get a PC wrestling game or a game where shaggy dogs are prevalent
I was already getting the PC version and I guess new hair tech makes it that much better?
Its hard to care until we get a PC wrestling game or a game where shaggy dogs are prevalent
Exactly! Now I have to buy a new computer just to enjoy Lara's hair... *_*
Yeah. This will be in the PC version from the beginning. Though you'll, of course, be able to turn it off if your PC can't handle it.
JordanN
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It's kinda hard to appreciate the tech when the rest of the game looks like pure crap.
Looks preeetty good.
It would of been better if they made a whole new game or even better, why not use Ruby?
Buried with ATi.
michaelius
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Looks really great - I hope realistic hairs will be common this generation.
nextgeneration
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Yup, CANNOT wait! I've been waiting for the longest time for physics to be a major factor in how games look/play.
XANDER CAGE
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It simulates her pulling stray hairs out and sticking them to the shower wall
cripterion
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Lara looking lush! This should be standard in all games by now, for both AMD and Nvidia users.
Erm, CUDA has been around before OpenCL was even conceived, and long before OpenCL was ever implemented.
cripterion
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Will the ennemies also benefit from that great looking hair or it's just for Lara Croft?
Angelus Errare
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I remember OpenCL being specced back in the end of 2007 towards 2008. CUDA became a thing around that same time frame no? Wait no you're right because I remember messing with CUDA's sdk back mid 2007. But really 2007 CUDA and CUDA of now are so far removed from each other.
wut ?
We are talking here about real believable hair something that was fugly since better 3D graphic started. Not only hair will look a lot better but also now will behave like hair.
Right now most of characters don't have hair. They have polygon box sculped to look like a hair painted with hair texture.
Now i wonder how the hell this works. I mean hairstyles that is. It is pinned in few places ? They need to release some paper on it.
Ummmm, that's official advertising for the announcement. He didn't make that.
nextgeneration
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Yup, as silly as this may seem, it's a HUGE deal. We finally have good hair!!! Since the advent of 3d graphics, it took us this long to finally get good hair, so yeah, while it may seem kind of silly, it's really not.
EvilDick34
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Really not sure why some of you are getting so amped up over this.
We also can't lose sight of the broader applications of the technology either: cloth simulation, grass and underbrush, leaves on trees, better rope simulation, and all of these things without significant interpenetration issues. Next gen worlds are going to look and be a hell of a lot more dynamic.
bigboss370
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this is actually quite awesome
