Strand-based hair can produce amazing results, but using it in real time for games has been a technical challenge for years. This session covers the advances realized by the Frostbite team on the subject and explains improvements in rendering and simulation. From a rendering standpoint, we will present a new rendering pipeline specifically designed for strand hair rendering, and the substantial improvements in visual quality this new system gives to a shipping game. From a simulation standpoint, we will give some details on our Eulerian/Lagrangian model and its various applications, our different constraints and our style preservation technique. We will also explain why we believe Strand-Based Hair is an improvement for authoring hair content in addition to quality of rendering and simulation.

Speaker's bio:
Jon Valdés has been working as a rendering engineer at Frostbite for the last 4 years, where he's helped build the technology behind games like FIFA, Anthem or Star Wars Battlefront II. He's been part of…