TressFX
The industry leading, hair rendering solution.
The TressFX library is AMD’s hair/fur rendering and simulation technology. TressFX is designed to use the GPU to simulate and render high-quality, realistic hair and fur.
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Features
Jaw-dropping visuals
High quality anti-aliasing
Samples and documentation
Autodesk® Maya® plugin
- Designed for optimized rendering and simulation.
- Hair and fur support, with high quality anti-aliasing.
- Animation/skinning support.
- Brand new LoD system.
- Extensive documentation and tutorials.
- Autodesk® Maya® plugin provided for hair/fur and collision authoring.
- Full source code provided.
Comparison
Are you an Unreal Engine developer?
The Unreal version of TressFX now supports 4.26.
Version history
- 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.
- The biggest update in TressFX v3.1.0 is a new order-independent transparency (OIT) option we call “ShortCut”. It has bounded memory and potentially higher performance than the full per-pixel linked list (PPLL) method. Note, though, that it does not give quite the same quality result as the PPLL method, and thus represents a memory/performance vs. quality tradeoff.
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