Is seems that there's a lot of computation required to render hair, especially animal fur, very accurately. Do game engines in real-life video games have some kind of short-cut so that such a small part of the video game experience doesn't require so much computation power?
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@ethanyxchen I'd guess that if a game really wants to specialize in animal hair they'd optimize towards that specifically and potentially forgo other degrees of freedom - or they might use some sort of baking so that it's not completely physics-based so that the hair looks reasonable and just behaves correctly under the limited set of conditions. In general though I do feel like a lot of games I've seen with animal fur tend not to draw much attention to the quality of the hair during active gameplay, so there probably is some shortcut.
Is seems that there's a lot of computation required to render hair, especially animal fur, very accurately. Do game engines in real-life video games have some kind of short-cut so that such a small part of the video game experience doesn't require so much computation power?
@ethanyxchen I'd guess that if a game really wants to specialize in animal hair they'd optimize towards that specifically and potentially forgo other degrees of freedom - or they might use some sort of baking so that it's not completely physics-based so that the hair looks reasonable and just behaves correctly under the limited set of conditions. In general though I do feel like a lot of games I've seen with animal fur tend not to draw much attention to the quality of the hair during active gameplay, so there probably is some shortcut.