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Dragon Age: The Veilguard has fantastic hair tech thanks to FIFA and Madden


The tech is really good, perhaps a bit too good.

EA has shared a lengthy blog detailing all the technical work that went into rendering hair in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. But because Veilguard features characters running through waterfalls or surrounded by magic particles — activities you won’t see in Madden ‘25 — the Strand Hair tech needed further refinement. In real life, short, close-cropped hair like that usually stays in place, but this style moved with literally every slight motion my character made.

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