Realtime Hair
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DX11:
No More sculpting hair!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF8CUSiPDJ0[/ame]
Now lets get some cloth sim please!
No More sculpting hair!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF8CUSiPDJ0[/ame]Now lets get some cloth sim please!
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http://image-metrics.com/
Specifically this:
http://image-metrics.com/press-release/image-metrics-launches-faceware%E2%84%A2-award-winning-facial-animation-software-game-develope
this
one untextured head in space does not mean it will be in games anytime soon. didnt an nvidia demo like 6 years ago have a mermaid swimming in water with every strand of her hair rendered moving around in the water?
where did that tech go?
If we could somehow navigate the maze of threading issues and write some software that could use all these cores we see no a days stuff like this would be possible the trick is syncing it up and getting it on screen without hogging everything.
I think this probably could go in a game provided its execution was thoughtful. Might have to wait for more power or perhaps just more cleverness to come along.
Real time Hair + Real time hardware tessellation + DX11 shaders + AI = we need 20 cores hyperthreaded to 40.
Guess we're all gonna need 20 grand to buy one of these http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/ with 2 6 core processors 4 gigs of video cards and 48 gigs of ram to start playing our games
... JK... on a side note that stuff is cool to look at, but sounds gimmicky still. I've seen better hair from planes and alphas from some character artists then something with 18000 strands of bsplines flopping around.
Impressive tech. I wonder if it could do feathers and other stuff.
yeah I always wondered that too
That's something places like falcon and alienware could step in; to create a PC "console" with their hardware vendors and make something relatively cheaper or similarly priced to a 1st gen PS3 with unified hardware all around. Except that it's a pc
I've heard the Playstation 5 will have a "Crab Core".
I lol'ed
Veyr impressive demo, but as others have alluded, probably not realistic just yet for in game characters.
Oh, and that hair stuff was ok too.
lol
I'm talking about putting an entire environments budget in the characters hair, I mean, I'm all for better and faster ways of doing hair, but here we have a full on simulation using the whole gpu for the hair.
we're using smart tricks every day with art, for example; we've had cloth simulation for years now, but we still dont just apply it to every clothed character, we do it partially and we do it in other cheaper ways that still look good.
This is real cool, but realistic its still years down the road before we even see this in game.
Yeah man...
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Still, that was 18k strands of hair, if used sparingly along with alpha maps, you could probably create some very good looking hair in games, without a horrible performance hit.
Guess we won't know for a while. Wonder what happened to all those realtime physics simulations I saw a while back, stuff like this seems to show up and disappear into obscurity for a long time before being used.
nalu demo for those interested.
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"today you dont see real time hairS in the gamez, you see umm..hellmates?" O.O....oh wait I think she meant helmets
I'd be happy enuff with this: (7800gtx demo)
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