Nvidia Hairworks Video Shows Off Fur & Hair

#4854610

Spets

2014-06-24 13:36

Would be cool if W3 also had HairWorks grass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7RQ4SKBGKk

#4854631

kd7

2014-06-24 14:07

Its optional, why not allow people with better hardware to get the best out of their game? Seems very strange for a PC gamer to hate on haveing more options for improving the visual quality of a game and its scaling over time.

is it optional?

#4854658

Goldie

2014-06-24 14:34

is it optional?

as far as i'm aware amd users can indeed play games like batman and metro with pysx disabled yes. i imagine the physx effects in W3 will be toggleable, wouldn't think the Devs would want to lock out amd users completely.

Would be cool if W3 also had HairWorks grass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7RQ4SKBGKk

i need this now. (or at least July 🙂 )

#4854663

kd7

2014-06-24 14:40

PhysX is different than GW. GW is supposed to to offer pre-optimised code for several different effects under DX11, PhysX is a separate physics engine.

#4854667

Goldie

2014-06-24 14:43

PhysX is different than GW. GW is supposed to to offer pre-optimised code for several different effects under DX11, PhysX is a separate physics engine.

i see, waw it's gonna be a gpu hog.

#4854763

kd7

2014-06-24 16:25

It doesn't really have to, lots of cool stuff in GW and not necessarily a gpu hog. It's all about how it is implemented.

#4854867

TheDeeGee

2014-06-24 18:53

All we need now is a remake of Black & White (1) featuring this =] ... dream on? ... 🙁

#4854890

Elder III

2014-06-24 19:09

The demo video is nice, I want this or TressFX in every game, if more GPU muscle is needed then that's what Crossfire/SLI is for. 🤓

#4854893

SoloCreep

2014-06-24 19:13

That is the reply to TressFX I suppose . Looks fantastic and should be well optimized. Not sure why they wanna call it Hairworks. This should be a part of Gameworks.

No actually PhysX has been around way before tressFX was even a thought. You must be new to pc.

#4854896

SoloCreep

2014-06-24 19:17

Its optional, why not allow people with better hardware to get the best out of their game? Seems very strange for a PC gamer to hate on having more options for improving the visual quality of a game and its scaling over time.

I totally agree with you, it is very strange but fanboyism is usually the reason. Usually the ones who talk crap are the guys who have a pc that cannot use these types of features. Also no one is forcing anyone to use these kind of effects. They always give us a box to check or uncheck if we want to use or not.

#4854919

kd7

2014-06-24 19:37

It has nothing to do with PhysX. It does need "physics" to work properly and this is done via DirectCompute. So yeah lets see if it can be disabled or not or how well it can be optimised for other hardware.

#4855138

Jraptor

2014-06-24 22:15

I'm sorry, but this hair fetish just doesn't thrill me. Laura, in Tomb Raider, looked far more realistic with her messy hair then she did with her flowing Vidal Sasson hair (considering she was stranded on an island and not too clean). The single hair animation seems like a waste of time. How often do you actually see people with hair like that, all flowing? Especially when you're moving you won't really notice it and I bet half the post processing/motion blur/etc. will just blur it all together anyway. :3eyes:

#4855530

JJayzX

2014-06-25 01:24

Nice, a mix of old videos allready seen 1000times ( a big laugh with the introduction of demo from Nvidia who have 4years now ) , + ghost + witcher 3 presentation we have allready seen 100 times .... they have not find anything new to show us about Hairworx ? They better have to got at least the hero of Witcher3 who got his hair who use Hairworx, and not only monster and wolfs this time.

I guess me and you are the only ones that noticed this is old news.

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