Really you don't think noctis' hairs good? I think he has the best hair I've ever seen in a videogame. Then again I don't really know what aliasing is so I don't know what difference it would make.
Aliasing are these tiny jaggies (here on ear, shoulder and hair) that form along a polygon object in a video game:
To implement so called antialiasing (making everything look softer) in different forms costs performance. So much that many games don't even have antialiasing. Many current WiiU games (Mario Kart or Smash Bros) lack it completely for example. The Final Fantasy XV demo lacked it too and it was most noticable on the hair, because they are made of thousands of polygon objects, each with jaggies. The picture of Noctis was not a good example, because it was a close up. Aliasing is most visible on smaller objects and objects that are far away. Far away Noctis' hair (as the hair of the other characters) looks pretty bad. Very crude, like straw or wire. Let me try to find a picture where it's best noticed... Okay, here you see it on Prompto:
And if he's farther away it's even more noticable:
(Gladiolus' hairspikes in the foreground also don't look too good.)
So the hair technique in Final Fantasy XV is very sophisticated but the so far missing antialiasing ruins all that. Imho how they did hair in the last generation with less detailed hair looked better, even with aliasing like in DOA5 on PS3/Xbox360 for example.
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