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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 aspec…

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. "With hair attachments that move seamlessly, and the decoupling of simulation and render tessellation, this is the first EA game to offer such detailed physics-driven long hairstyles. But the added complexity of longer hair and more technical environments mean BioWare needed ways to adjust memory usage when multiple characters are shown.

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