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Why Hair In Video Games Is So Hard To Do Well – Kotaku Australia
Hair is one of the most crucial elements of making a believeable character. So why has video game hair been so difficult to get right?
There’s a quip in an old Tim Rogers video about Hitman 2, where Agent 47 is bald because “it’s 2018 and they still can’t get hair right”.
It’s a classic joke about video games. Video games can simulate complex interlocking networks and systems, calculate the movement of thousands of individuals all at once, model weather patterns and general entire galaxies on the fly, but hair? That’s a step too far.
Despite seeming like a natural extension of character models — which have made extraordinary strides…
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