TRESSFX: A NEW FRONTIER OF REALISM IN PC GAMING

humbug · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:41

Martini1991 said:
You shouldn't put so much stock in reps, given who they can be.
GILGAMESH!

You shouldn't always assume they are or that roff absolutely is the only one that can be wright.

its like, why?

Rroff · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:41

humbug said:
You need to entertain the possibility that he might actually be right and you wrong.

He might be right when he claims that PhysX - an API specifically for processing physics is a carbon copy of Open CL - an API for heterogeneous computing ?

Sorry this thread has taken a detour into pants on head retarded and I'm out.

Martini1991 · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:43

humbug said:
You shouldn't always assume they are or that roff absolutely is the only one that can be wright?

its like, why?

Well, I didn't say anything like that did I? It was simply don't put stock in reps on the strength that they're reps, as well, they can be anyone, even total nut jobs.

Infact, don't put stock in any PR on the strength it's it's a company employee/rep talking.

But put more words in my mouth please.

humbug · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:45

Martini1991 said:
Well, I didn't say anything like that did I? It was simply don't put stock in reps on the strength that they're reps, as well, they can be anyone, even total nut jobs.

Infact, don't put stock in any PR on the strength it's it's a company employee/rep talking.

But put more words in my mouth please.

You don't need to.

Martini1991 · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:48

humbug said:
You don't need to.

I don't even know how to respond to this.
I didn't say Rroff was right, wouldn't bother me if he was wrong, wouldn't bother me if he was right.

Someone doing PR isn't right as a de-facto answer because they're a rep though.

LtMatt · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:58

That's enough lads.

Martini1991 · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:02

Back onto the effect.
The story is, it's going to be running in Tomb Raider? I always thought the PSX physics were enough, they're just going to ruin it with realistic breast bouncing action.

humbug · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:04

Martini1991 said:
Back onto the effect.
The story is, it's going to be running in Tomb Raider? I always thought the PSX physics were enough, they're just going to ruin it with realistic breast bouncing action.

That would probably sell more copies of the game...

Martini1991 · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:07

humbug said:
That would probably sell more copies of the game...

Realistic breast bouncing is just disappointing given some of the crazy bouncing they'd do in earlier games.

Or any fighting game with a female, it's like jelly on speed.

Gregster · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:10

DOA boob enhancements worked for me

muppet · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:12

nothing wrong with a bit of that lol

hopefully all these new consoles will bail amd out of the mire i hope

Dom86 · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:29

If it is hair "physics" I wouldn't be disappointed in the slightest I hate it when i'm playing a third person game and the hair is just static clumps of brown with no movement, it kind of detracts from my immersion. But that could just be me.

docsonic · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:31

A dev. chat with Jurjen Katsman of Nixxes (Tomb Raider) just took place here and one of his replies was this:

Question: With your partnership with AMD, will there be any features in Tomb Raider that will be exclusive to gamers with AMD hardware, and unavailable to Nvidia users?

Answer:No there should not be. AMD has always been quite clear about that as well. We are working on features that are specific to the PC platform, but if they are DX11 features they will also work on Nvidia DX11 hardware.

Someone also asked about Tress FX - his answer:

That does look pretty interesting doesn't it? More on that tomorrow

Klo · 25 Feb 2013 at 20:56

docsonic said:
A dev. chat with Jurjen Katsman of Nixxes (Tomb Raider) just took place here and one of his replies was this:

Someone also asked about Tress FX - his answer:

I bet you its GPU powered hair.

PorkPieCat · 25 Feb 2013 at 21:09

Dom86 said:
If it is hair "physics" I wouldn't be disappointed in the slightest I hate it when i'm playing a third person game and the hair is just static clumps of brown with no movement, it kind of detracts from my immersion. But that could just be me.

yeah, i think it will be hair, and i'll be really pleased too. more polygons in games every year is great and all but i'd like better animation of humans, which includes hair

illuz · 25 Feb 2013 at 21:15

I think we have enough power from DX11, it hasn't matured enough yet to have shown it's full capabilities but it's still pretty damn amazing. Definitely time to start working on physics and realism more.

spoffle · 25 Feb 2013 at 22:20

Suarez7 said:
I see the red and green handbags are out again.

I thought you AMD boys didn't care about physics much anyway? A lot of you said it adds nothing to games, lemme guess AMD's version is gonna be like OMQWTFBBQROLLS lets look at her hair flow around in the wind like a L'Oreal advert while I'm getting shot at in the head.

PhysX and physics aren't the same thing. I'm up for good hardware physics that isn't PhysX. This isn't "AMD's version" either. It's just an open hardware physics API, something I've been saying needs to come out for a long time, but realistically wouldn't until the lowest common denominator could run it.

PhysX adds nothing to games, and do you know why? Because developers can't do anything beyond token effects, if they tried to implement it in a way that influences the game play, then you'd NEED an nVidia GPU to run it, and no dev is stupid enough to do that and cut out a huge amount of potential customers.

docsonic · 26 Feb 2013 at 08:38

Drumroll... and yep .. you guessed it.. it's GPU hair!

Through painstaking collaboration between software developers at AMD and Crystal Dynamics, Tomb Raider proudly features the world’s first real-time hair rendering technology in a playable game: TressFX Hair.

illuz · 26 Feb 2013 at 08:45

Yeah just had a look. This is good!

Diagro · 26 Feb 2013 at 09:21

Looks cool