Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle would be the first recreation to get Nvidia’s new RTX Hair options subsequent month. As an alternative of utilizing triangles to mannequin hair, Nvidia will use spheres to enhance Harrison Ford’s digital hair within the Indiana Jones recreation.
RTX Hair is designed to enhance lighting and shadows, all whereas sustaining efficiency within the recreation and never taking on an excessive amount of additional reminiscence. It additionally makes Ford’s hair look fuller and extra sensible, and can be obtainable as an replace to the real-time path tracing mode in Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle.
The RTX Hair enhancements use new {hardware} capabilities in RTX 50-series GPUs, as Nvidia added {hardware} acceleration of ray tracing for hair and fur and help for the linear swept sphere (LSS) primitive. Nvidia says LSS is a “huge step towards rendering high-quality digital people in actual time.”
