Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the first game that supports NVIDIA’s new RTX Hair tech. YouTube’s ‘Compusemble’ has shared a cool video, showcasing how this tech can improve the hair of all characters. So, let’s take a look at it.
But what is RTX Hair? According to NVIDIA, RTX Hair reduces the amount of geometry necessary to render strands of hair. It also uses spheres/tubes instead of triangles to get a more accurate fit for hair shapes in ray tracing.
In the video, you will immediately see the improvements of RTX Hair. Thanks to it, hair looks more natural than ever. Moreover, RTX Hair does not appear to bring a big performance hit. From what I can see, we’re looking at a 2-5FPS hit on an NVIDIA RTX 5090.
In a way, RTX Hair will bring back memories of NVIDIA Hairworks and AMD TressFX. They are not exactly the same as these two techs aimed to improve the rendering and simulation of hair/fur. Still, this is precisely what will come to your mind the moment you hear the words “RTX Hair”.
Anyway, this is a cool new visual improvement as it does not come with a big performance hit. So, if you have a powerful GPU, you should enable it. Just be sure to know what you can expect from it. RTX Hair will only improve the visuals of hair. It will NOT add new physics to them.
Have fun!
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