EA Reveals Next-Generation Hair Rendering for Frostbite

[AleksandarK]

In the gaming industry, everything is evolving around game graphics. GPUs are integrating new technologies such as ray tracing, there are tons of software dedicated to making in-game illustrations look as realistic as possible. Electronic Arts, one of the game publishing companies decided to release a state of the art AAA games, today revealed an update to DICE's Frostbite engine.

DICE's Frostbite engine is powering many of today's AAA titles such as Battlefield V, Anthem and Star Wars Battlefront. Today it got a big update. EA released new capabilities to render the hair of in-game characters with almost real-life realism. This is pretty impressive considering that hair is very difficult to model artificially. Being one of the most interesting topics for game developers, good hair animations are extremely important to achieving the lifelike look newer AAA titles are targeting.


If you would like to see it in the video, you can check out this amazing work of art EA has made here:

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[RH92]

Amazing work those hairs look natural ! Can't imagine where graphics will be in the next 10years especially now that we have raytracing .

 

[Cr4zy]

Frostbite looking better and yet still no one can make good games with it.

 

[RH92]

Frostbite looking better and yet still no one can make good games with it.

True !

 

[WithoutWeakness]

I laughed out loud when the camera panned around and showed the blank mannequin face and then it did the awkward flip-kick. I know they're demoing the hair but you couldn't put it on an actual character?

 

[Valantar]

Looks kind of cool.

More importantly, though, are they going to keep forcing this engine down the throats of their developers regardless of its suitability to the project at hand?

 

[rhpsystems]

Frostbite looking better and yet still no one can make good games with it.

+1000

 

[stimpy88]

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought nVidia did this stuff before? Has the Frostbite engine always used their own in-house tech for this?

 

[Manu_PT]

In b4 everyone disables that effect to gain additional 30fps

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Frostbite looking better and yet still no one can make good games with it.

Bad Company 2 wasnt too bad. Im half disappointed they toned down the destruction so much in newer BF games.

 

[Deleted member 158293]

EA's game engine developers are top world class programmers.

EA's executive brass utterly destroys their game designer's visions & then litter their games with the maximum amount of micro transactions possible.

It's like running a car with one sport tire and 3 concrete blocks.

 

[Divide Overflow]

What are the hardware requirements and hit to performance?

 

[_Flare]

Looks good .. but the look is not the problem this previously very good Mantle-capable Engine has.

They have some problems deep in their engine, they will need to get rid of as fast as possible.

 

[RichF]

Now we can have even more luxuriant tresses on an ugly old man.

Witcher 4 ftw.

 

[PanicLake]

I laughed out loud when the camera panned around and showed the blank mannequin face and then it did the awkward flip-kick. I know they're demoing the hair but you couldn't put it on an actual character?

Systems can't handle both
Maybe is a new meme: but can it run Frostbyte hair?

 

[AltCapwn]

Frostbite looking better and yet still no one can make good games with it.

I'm still mad about the fact that they haven't released a SDK saying the engine is too complex.

One of the best part of BF2 was the mod community.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Expected Fabio hair; got Fabio hair. I am not disappointed.

Do I care? Not in the slightest because a game shouldn't be so shallow that it matters.

 

[Mistral]

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought nVidia did this stuff before? Has the Frostbite engine always used their own in-house tech for this?

nVidia, November 2013, proprietary part of GameWorks, COD: Ghosts
AMD, March 2013, open source, Tomb Rider

Wouldn't be too surprised if the Frostbyte solution turned out to be a modified TressFX 3.0

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Why not? That's the cheapest/fastest way to do it.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Agent 47 wouldn't care for this...

 

[Fluffmeister]

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought nVidia did this stuff before? Has the Frostbite engine always used their own in-house tech for this?

They did show a hair demo from way back in 2010, that looks quite similar frankly.

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[PanicLake]

They did show a hair demo from way back in 2010, that look quite similar frankly.

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Yes, but I believe it to be hairworks only, that is supported only by nVidia cards.
I think that what Frostbyte achieved is renderable by all brands of video cards.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Yes, but I believe it to be hairworks only, that is supported only by nVidia cards.
I think that what Frostbyte achieved is renderable by all brands of video cards.

Of course, just pointing out stimpy is correct in assuming such tech has been around for donkeys.

The acid test as always is the performance hit, Tomb Raider only used TressFX on Lara's head and not mulitple NPCs at the same time for example.

 

[willace]

Good, but disable it to gain 50+fps.................

 

[moproblems99]

Now if only every game using the engine didn't end up a hot pile of trash.