AMD TressFX Featured in Tomb Raider: Lara Croft Reborn

#4538410

DarkKnightDude

2013-02-26 10:48

The differences are pretty impressive. I wonder what kind of perf hit this will have when you toggle it on.

#4538414

anub1s18

2013-02-26 11:01

i think i prefer the original look. wile the amount of detail on the tressFX picture seems to be higher, the same could be achieved using higher resolution textures on the hair but oh well... actually most of the offputting low quality aspect of the original could be fixed with textures / higher poly count on the hair and it wouldn't even tax the system that much more. and the added "hanging hair" that is not part of the original hair just makes it look messy and chaotic (not in a shipwreck way but just crappy) not exactly "A New Frontier of Realism" but that might just be the pictures. not that Nvidia's effort at hair has been that much better or usable at all.

#4538415

WolfPT

2013-02-26 11:02

Looks amazing. As DarkKnight said, wondering how will the perfomance suffer from this little AMD treat 😉

#4538416

-Tj-

2013-02-26 11:03

WOW! Now this is some serious stuff, finally after 6-7years! I will buy it just becuase of that 🤓

#4538421

Lane

2013-02-26 11:11

i think i prefer the original look. wile the amount of detail on the tressFX picture seems to be higher, the same could be achieved using higher resolution textures on the hair but oh well... actually most of the offputting low quality aspect of the original could be fixed with textures / higher poly count on the hair and it wouldn't even tax the system that much more. and the added "hanging hair" that is not part of the original hair just makes it look messy and chaotic (not in a shipwreck way but just crappy) not exactly "A New Frontier of Realism" but that might just be the pictures. not that Nvidia's effort at hair has been that much better or usable at all.

You should read the entire description for understand why it is different, basically it is pushed by the wind forces, and movement.. not in the first one. better to see it in video or in real time instead of compare 2 statics screenshoots. But i agree we are far of the demonstration of the AMD Havocs Physics ( the dancer ), before Intel buy it (and remove GPGPU from it ) ( 8 years ago ) Look good no, and i wait to see it in movement. ? http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/951/filebdef5fb6ba59b1bfe0.jpg

#4538422

anub1s18

2013-02-26 11:17

You should read the entire description for understand why it is different, basically it is pushed by the wind forces, and movement.. not in the first one. better to see it in video or in real time instead of compare 2 statics screenshoots. But i agree we are far of the demonstration of the AMD Havocs Physics ( the dancer ), before Intel buy it (and remove GPGPU from it ) ( 8 years ago )

ah so it's like clothes in nvidia's APEX/physx... wonder if they ever applied it to hair since it's the exact same principle. but that indeed looks MUCH better.

#4538423

Spets

2013-02-26 11:19

The differences are pretty impressive. I wonder what kind of perf hit this will have when you toggle it on.

Probably not that much, Alice MR hair was just on CPU.

#4538424

-Tj-

2013-02-26 11:21

^ and just with few sprites, this is more advanced and much better. Idk about perf. impact though, but i presume it would take away at least 5-10fps.. I hope to see this stuff in more upcomming games 🙂

#4538425

FrenchKiss

2013-02-26 11:21

Looks pretty impressive! Let's wait for a video or something but wow. Any chance to see it with nVidia GPU?

#4538426

Lane

2013-02-26 11:22

ah so it's like clothes in nvidia's APEX/physx... wonder if they ever applied it to hair since it's the exact same principal. but that indeed looks MUCH better.

Nearly the same principle...

#4538427

CronoGraal

2013-02-26 11:22

looks nice.

#4538428

-Tj-

2013-02-26 11:23

Looks pretty impressive! Let's wait for a video or something but wow. Any chance to see it with nVidia GPU?

Its direct compute, imo it will run on Nvidia too. But 7900 has higher tflops power so im a little worried about NV Fermi GF100/110 performance.

#4538429

cowie

2013-02-26 11:26

Looks ok in stills but it may end up looking like rope instead of hair. Need a vid...oh and i like the shampoo type ad

#4538431

-Tj-

2013-02-26 11:29

^ Imo default non TessFX looks like a rope of hair ;D Check nvidia's 2010 hair tech demo, im pretty sure it will be something like that, if not better 🙂

#4538433

Lane

2013-02-26 11:34

Looks ok in stills but it may end up looking like rope instead of hair. Need a vid...oh and i like the shampoo type ad

I dont know what some some of them smoke, but well original marketing for sure for the press. This reboot of the series look definitively excellent..

#4538439

Speed Weed

2013-02-26 11:54

Pretty neat! Really like it. 🙂

#4538445

Corbus

2013-02-26 12:04

Got to get myself that shampoo

#4538487

DrSiN

2013-02-26 13:19

Such a small thing, but such massive improvements there, beautiful.

#4538505

GeniusPr0

2013-02-26 13:45

Am I the only one here that doesn't care about hair?

#4538512

ricardonuno1980

2013-02-26 13:51

Its direct compute, imo it will run on Nvidia too. But 7900 has higher tflops power so im a little worried about NV Fermi GF100/110 performance.

"TressFX" - I will get maybe good fps on my GTX 480 because I think that GTX 480 is faster or slower than HD 7970* at extreme/insane (hair tessellated) tessellation (eg: Tessmark 0.3.0). 😉 * - attention to ATi-AMD Optimized Tesselation (enabled is (much) faster than disabled/original but enabled is lower polygons.)