Adding hair (as a texture!)

[LucentDreams]

how furry? you can creat the illusion of peachfuz like the hair on a horse using chanlum, but for the main and such spriteplanes are the way to go

[That Adrian Guy]

It's for my donkey:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36363

...so it's not exactly fuzzy

[novice]

What you need is two plugins.

Solid spline and hair dept ....both free.

with hair department you can generate some splines as hair and with solid spline you can render them.Remember to delete the polygon object that Hair dept. generates cause it is usually about million polys.

This is gonna work or ...maybe not but it is free and easy....

[kiwi]

Cool Donkey Adrian :thumbsup:


Stu.

[CosmicBear]

:shame: sorry, novice, but i really doubt that this technique is going to work for fur.

i've been trying to do the exact same thing for a goatee on a face and it already takes (without textures, lightning, antialasing, animation) about 30 minutes to render a single frame on a dual G4. and that's only for a goatee!!! to have a furry donkey, i can imagine you will have to multiply the points on the splines with the factor 1000 (at least!!!!)

right now i'm thinking about buying s&h as it seems, there is no other way to have animated hair... :shrug:

[zued]

Heres som fury/hairy links..

http://www.motion-gimmick.com/furious.htm
http://www.motion-gimmick.com/hair-or-what.htm

or this one..

http://www.bookwoodarts.de/pe/ - look in the plugin index
for a plug named "PaulsHair public beta (R8/pc only)"

/zued the swede :D

[flingster]

can't ditools do something like this.....but haven't got a clue how....ask mdme_sadie as he seems to know ditools really well...otherwise go visit site....worth a look....if i got it wrong i'm sorry for wasting your time bud...(i thinks its remotion.de.vu not sure though)

[zued]

Where do I find the free version of Solid spline?.

Can only find Solid Spline PRO..

/zued the swede :D

[flingster]

i thought you could get it from.
http://www.bookwoodarts.de/pe/

if not dunno.
whats the difference between pro and limited editions?

[zued]

the link is dead.. :D
could anyone mail it to me? ( if its free.. that is )



/:beer: zued the swede :D

[LucentDreams]

Just a note on Solidsplines, it has been removed because it is cause huge compatibility issues with R8 and with otehr plugins in R8. Anyone using it, should keep it in 7, cause in R8 your making C4D less stable

[That Adrian Guy]

bummer!

Either way, I couldn't use the fur plug unless you could comb the hair with it.

I'm just going to use flat textures on the donkey! Hair would be too much of a burden w/o hardcore commercial plug ins.

[TheLegend299]

I to would like solidspline

[LucentDreams]

get it at the bookwarts.de sit posted above, you'll have to pay for it, since Paul is no longer providing the fre version to much of a hassle to either fix or provide support for.

[fer 3d]

Hair Department doesn't appear to work in r 8. Doesn't even show up in the plug-in menu. Am I missing something?

In fact, HD is the only reason I'm keeping v7 in my computer...

fer

[novice]

Sorry for delay I was on a killer project I couldn't log for 12 days ....

Yes you are totaly right it is not working so render with alpha channel and use it in your compositing app ......

[squidinc]

HD is working fine here, R8 ver 8.012

make sure you've copied everything into the right folder:shrug:

[fer 3d]

That would be great news!

I copied the HD folder into the C4d Plug-in folder, launched the application, and didn't find it listed in the plug-ins menu where it used to be...

Where did you download your copy of HD from and when? May be I have an old version... No compatibility with v 8 is specified (only v 6 and 7).

Also, I see you are using an Athlon. May be this problem is some mac version thing (I'm using a mac)...

fer

[squidinc]

could be a mac thing then, I downloaded it from the bgs-group's site :shrug:

[CosmicBear]

yeah, same here.... HD doesn't work on a mac... :(

[randyrives]

Just did a quick test and Hair works for me in V8.

I am on a PC running XP.

[fer 3d]

Hi,

Hair Department actually works on mac OS X. Make sure you follow the "read me" instructions.

fer

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