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NVIDIA HairWorks: COD Ghosts fur and hair simulation solution
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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#4744976 Posted on: 01/16/2014 01:27 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.
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.
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#4744992 Posted on: 01/16/2014 01:52 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.
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.
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#4744998 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:02 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.
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.
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#4744999 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:03 PM
Seriously though, my fps cripples from solid 60 to 20 when I turn this feature on. It's unplayable.
Seriously though, my fps cripples from solid 60 to 20 when I turn this feature on. It's unplayable.
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#4745002 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:09 PM
The only game which I have played and enjoyed PhisX was Borderlands 2 and as far as I know those effects can be enabled by an .ini for AMD cards..
The only game which I have played and enjoyed PhisX was Borderlands 2 and as far as I know those effects can be enabled by an .ini for AMD cards..
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#4745007 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:16 PM
even with 760 SLI i cant turn physx on in most games, the fps just plummets...
lol... must admit when my buddy showed me tressfx tomb raider hair i was blown away. might get a 290 on water here soon.
even with 760 SLI i cant turn physx on in most games, the fps just plummets...
lol... must admit when my buddy showed me tressfx tomb raider hair i was blown away. might get a 290 on water here soon.
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#4745013 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:29 PM
It is obvious none of you read the artical this is direct compute it's not cuda based AMD can use it get off your PhysX bashing.
It is obvious none of you read the artical this is direct compute it's not cuda based AMD can use it get off your PhysX bashing.
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#4745024 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:50 PM
AMD lunatics are butthurt again. Only poorAMDfags can't see difference between on/off Physx. Pathetic AMD lunatics ignoring Tom Raider performance drop with TressFX enabled. Only bald AMD lunatics are amazed by plastic threes branch which AMD dare to call hairs. HairWorks using tessellation and directcompute. Very well advertised by AMD. Looks like AMD is kicked by open standards.
AMD lunatics are butthurt again. Only poorAMDfags can't see difference between on/off Physx. Pathetic AMD lunatics ignoring Tom Raider performance drop with TressFX enabled. Only bald AMD lunatics are amazed by plastic threes branch which AMD dare to call hairs. HairWorks using tessellation and directcompute. Very well advertised by AMD. Looks like AMD is kicked by open standards.
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#4745028 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:53 PM
Gimme hairworks Doge. thx.
Gimme hairworks Doge. thx.
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#4745030 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:55 PM
I noticed the same, looks like this dog take a bad with air conditioner.
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.
I noticed the same, looks like this dog take a bad with air conditioner.
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#4745031 Posted on: 01/16/2014 02:58 PM
There might be confusion as the front page news has "Obviously PhysX based once again." written as part of the intro to the video.
http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/nvidia_hairworks_cod_ghosts_fur_and_hair_simulation_solution.html
I'm glad to see that now we know from the article that it's "DirectCompute, which opens it for AMD users as well."
http://physxinfo.com/news/12197/introducing-nvidia-hairworks-fur-and-hair-simulation-solution/
It is obvious none of you read the artical this is direct compute it's not cuda based AMD can use it get off your PhysX bashing.
There might be confusion as the front page news has "Obviously PhysX based once again." written as part of the intro to the video.
http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/nvidia_hairworks_cod_ghosts_fur_and_hair_simulation_solution.html
I'm glad to see that now we know from the article that it's "DirectCompute, which opens it for AMD users as well."
http://physxinfo.com/news/12197/introducing-nvidia-hairworks-fur-and-hair-simulation-solution/
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#4745038 Posted on: 01/16/2014 03:06 PM
even with 760 SLI i cant turn physx on in most games, the fps just plummets...
lol... must admit when my buddy showed me tressfx tomb raider hair i was blown away. might get a 290 on water here soon.
Plummets from how much to how much? and what games have you played? All physx games i've tried worked well with my 760, certainly didn't have any fps drops that i would use the word "plummet" to describe . Usually i have 35+ fps (mainly the most taxing one till now is Black Flag). The only game that i would call bad with physx is Cryostasis but thats just an optimization mess.
even with 760 SLI i cant turn physx on in most games, the fps just plummets...
lol... must admit when my buddy showed me tressfx tomb raider hair i was blown away. might get a 290 on water here soon.
Plummets from how much to how much? and what games have you played? All physx games i've tried worked well with my 760, certainly didn't have any fps drops that i would use the word "plummet" to describe . Usually i have 35+ fps (mainly the most taxing one till now is Black Flag). The only game that i would call bad with physx is Cryostasis but thats just an optimization mess.
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#4745044 Posted on: 01/16/2014 03:17 PM
Hilbert really should fix that 'obviously PhysX based' statement.
It's practically nothing but flamebait.
Hilbert really should fix that 'obviously PhysX based' statement.
It's practically nothing but flamebait.
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#4745047 Posted on: 01/16/2014 03:27 PM
Geforce cards have had an artificial limit on their compute performance since, afaik, the 500 series. I hope this leads to that being removed?
Geforce cards have had an artificial limit on their compute performance since, afaik, the 500 series. I hope this leads to that being removed?
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Typical BS by nV. The same effect can be achieved without Physx.
At least when AMD does it's an open standard.