Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Clumpiness
CastsShadows
and
VisibleInRaytrace
clicks later...
CastsShadows
and
VisibleInRaytrace
clicks later...
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Redistributing Poser Dynamic Hair without the base figure - a solution
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Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Let's do RootWidth+ just once - it might be a bit subtle (I did RootWidth+ twice on the white fur hat) but maybe just once I can be subtle?
The more we do, the more we wander into the taste of the end-user artist. Does that fur look good enough, or do we need it to look denser? Can we reduce the "curviness" of the hair by reducing the vertices or do we need it to be floppier, by adding extra vertices? And so on.
The more we do, the more we wander into the taste of the end-user artist. Does that fur look good enough, or do we need it to look denser? Can we reduce the "curviness" of the hair by reducing the vertices or do we need it to be floppier, by adding extra vertices? And so on.
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Density+ once
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
The next render I did proved that I was correct in worrying that there was a texture size mismatch - so I'll created a 2x2 of the fur texture for the actual hair strands to get this:
Yeah.. that's looking better to me. BTW I don't plan on addressing the brim hair being denser than the side hair here - that's because we're using one hair group across different polygon densities.
And now - a short break.
Yeah.. that's looking better to me. BTW I don't plan on addressing the brim hair being denser than the side hair here - that's because we're using one hair group across different polygon densities.
And now - a short break.
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
OK, let's see - setting PullBack to 0 at this stage makes the fur look "spikey" to me, we probably want a lower value than we have but not zero. Let's do Density+ instead, and make Poser work for its money!
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Let me run:
PullDown
Oooh, well *I* think that looks gorgeous.
PullDown
Oooh, well *I* think that looks gorgeous.
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Personally I like to add a little animation in to the mix - here I have rotated the hat through 360 degrees and got Poser Dynamics to "drape" the hair, then rendered the last frame. Great for if you find the above version too "spikey".
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
poor Giraffe
I promise there were no animals harmed during the creation of the texture. I just thought a recognisable pattern might show the hair strands a bit better for testing(feel free to share the textures with your testers)
Thank you kindly, I shall do exactly that
I think that skinning virtual animals for style is a HUGE improvement on skinning real animals just for style. It's also going to be great to be able to supply a consistent texture map (or two - I am away from desktop right now but plan to test it out later) because that should mean consistent results/repeatability.
Cheers indeed!
Cliff
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Using the other texture!
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
RootWidth+
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
And here I've taken the texture off of the hat - so you can clearly see how very useful a good base texture can be.
Sure, we don't NEED a texture, as I hope my "WhiteISH" fur coat renders before demonstrated - but we get the BEST results (IMO) by using ALL of the tools at our command, rather than just 1 technique.
Sure, we don't NEED a texture, as I hope my "WhiteISH" fur coat renders before demonstrated - but we get the BEST results (IMO) by using ALL of the tools at our command, rather than just 1 technique.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
And, for one more option......I did Animation>All Fur for one frame on these.
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Yet another option! A SuperFly render proving that Dawn still has knees.
Cheers,
Cliff
Cheers,
Cliff
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
And your Dusk Beard preset.
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Lol that certainly looks better than any of the renders I've done with it!
Cheers,
Cliff
Cheers,
Cliff
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
So far the manual has reached 17,671 words covering 112 pages. I think I've wrapped up the first pass on tutorials for Dynamic Hair with the renders of white coat, though I may go back and add some of the textured ones in as "this is what it would look like with a texture". Next though it's time to move on to more tutorials on how to get under the surface of TrueHair and get the following functions to do more than is readily apparent.
The different colour boxes around the thumbnails are to help identify functions by group more quickly than you might without. The colours don't mean anything except that "a red box next to another red box is related" and "a blue box next to a green box is not very closely related".
BTW, none of the "?" functions are coded yet, but I do not anticipate huge hurdles there.
Cheers,
Cliff
The different colour boxes around the thumbnails are to help identify functions by group more quickly than you might without. The colours don't mean anything except that "a red box next to another red box is related" and "a blue box next to a green box is not very closely related".
BTW, none of the "?" functions are coded yet, but I do not anticipate huge hurdles there.
Cheers,
Cliff
Cliff Bowman
Adventurous
Darn. I missed Verts+ when I was adding boxes. Hope I catch that sooner rather than later.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Playing with hair for Baby Luna on a skull cap I had done ages ago. I used the Universal Simple Hair Shader for Poser - A Minyassa 3D Creation in the store here for the textures. I should have turned off the alt spec for Superfly, but I forgot.
