AMD TressFX 4.0 released

[StefanM]

New in TressFX 4

• Hair is skinned directly, rather than through triangle stream-out.
• Signed distance field (SDF) collision, including compute shaders to generate the SDF from a dynamic mesh.
• New system for handling fast motion.
• Refactored to be more engine / API agnostic.
• Example code includes compute-based skinning and marching cubes generation.
• DirectX 12 support

DirectX 12

Although DirectX 12 support is included, it hasn't been properly optimized.


Prerequisites

• AMD Radeon™ GCN-based GPU (HD 7000 series or newer)
  • Or other DirectX® 11 or DirectX 12 compatible discrete GPU with Shader Model 5 support
• 64-bit Windows® 7 (SP1 with the Platform Update), Windows 8.1, or Windows 10
• Visual Studio® 2013 or Visual Studio 2015
• Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 required for DirectX 12

 

[R-T-B]

That is the most disturbing demo-creature I've seen in a while.

It's like Splinter drank an extra dose of whatever-the-heck screwed up the Ninja Turtles.

Otherwise, cool.

 

[XiGMAKiD]

Rather than using Ruby as the model, they chose this instead

 

[RejZoR]

Rather than using Ruby as the model, they chose this instead

I don't want this hairy Ruby

 

[MrGenius]

His name is RatBoy.

And you can make his fur REALLY long.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

looks amazing, for a furball with 3 balls, err eyeballs...

 

[biffzinker]

No body just fur: