Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive hair tech was built on the heads and shoulders of EA Sports FC
There’s a lot to love about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but one of its most impressive and remarked-upon technical aspects is undoubtedly its advanced rendering of characters’ hair.
Hairstyles move and sway naturally as you and your party walk, while long hair streams out behind as you run. Your whole hairdo reacts if you are impacted by a sudden force or object.
There are up to 50,000 strands of hair on each of Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s main characters, powered by something BioWare and EA’s Frostbite engine team call Strand Hair technology. It’s something originally worked upon for EA Sports FC, but which has been expanded upon greatly here.
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“While Strand Hair is present in other EA games, the BioWare team had to push the limits even further for Dragon Age: The Veilguard,” EA writes in a new deep-dive blog post on Stand Hair. “For example, implementing Strand Hair technology for characters who have waist-length hair with horns on their head presented some unique challenges.