Nvidia Gives Fake Harrison Ford Better Hair Using Spheres

Indiana Jones and nan Great Circle will beryllium nan first crippled to get Nvidia’s caller RTX Hair features adjacent month. Instead of utilizing triangles to exemplary hair, Nvidia will usage spheres to amended Harrison Ford’s virtual hairsbreadth successful nan Indiana Jones game.

RTX Hair is designed to amended lighting and shadows, each while maintaining capacity successful nan crippled and not taking up excessively overmuch other memory. It besides makes Ford’s hairsbreadth look fuller and much realistic, and will beryllium disposable arsenic an update to nan real-time way tracing mode successful Indiana Jones and nan Great Circle.

The RTX Hair improvements usage caller hardware capabilities successful RTX 50-series GPUs, arsenic Nvidia added hardware acceleration of ray tracing for hairsbreadth and fur and support for nan linear swept sphere (LSS) primitive. Nvidia says LSS is simply a “big measurement toward rendering high-quality integer humans successful existent time.”