NVIDIA HairWorks: COD Ghosts fur and hair simulation solution

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/16/2014 01:14 PM | source: | 79 comment(s)

AMD is catching a lot of marketing buzz with TressFX. As such NVIDIA figured, let's introduce hairworks. DirectCompute based. In the video below you'll see a competing response from NVIDIA, and it does look pretty snazzy alright. The example is Call of Duty: Ghosts – “Dynamic Fur” simulation for animal characters.

The fur tech was first demoed at E3 2013 for Witcher 3 wolf creature and has been tested and refined through multiple game engagements including Call of Duty Ghosts, Witcher 3, and others. Each fur asset has about 400-500K hair strands. Most of these hairs are dynamically created on the fly inside GPU from roughly 10K guide hairs that are simulated and provide basis for further tessellation.

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mR Yellow
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#4744972 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:22 PM

Typical BS by nV. The same effect can be achieved without Physx.
At least when AMD does it's an open standard.

HonoredShadow
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#4744976 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:27 PM

Good point mR Yellow. Most of the stuff Nvidia does fails anyway. Look at Physx Bad performance for what you get and problems with compatibility down the line.

FuriousAngel
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#4744992 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:52 PM

Ok, so they gave the dog some new physics.... nice, ok, but they forgot to have a look at real dogs it seems... I've never seen a german shepherd with fur moving that way. Kind of funny and at the same time pathetic.

MAD-OGRE
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#4744998 Posted on: 01/16/2014 03:02 PM

Looks much better with the fur, I dont get why some people cry about company's spending time and money on projects and then not openly giving the tech or w/e away is all about, must be some thing like self entitlement mentality or some thing.

If AMD wants to spend it time and money on this type stuff instead of fixing it's drivers good for them, if you want to buy it from them good for you, but bitching about it all the time is lame. You need to wake up this is not a communist ran economy where every thing is given out equally.

VultureX
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#4744999 Posted on: 01/16/2014 03:03 PM

Seriously though, my fps cripples from solid 60 to 20 when I turn this feature on. It's unplayable.

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