CGTalk - How to make fur

Forgiven

01-13-2003, 06:34 PM

Hi, i'm using maya 4.5, and after several times trying to attach fur to a surface, i get no results.
So, i went back to a simple sphere to try this feature. I followed Maya's help tutorial, but no results are shown in rendered image.
Why? What am i doing wrong? I followed tutorial step by step, and i can't get either! Please help.

bentllama

01-13-2003, 08:04 PM

Are you running Maya Complete or Maya Unlimited?

Forgiven

01-14-2003, 04:31 PM

I'm using Maya Unlimited.
BTW, i think Fur features are not available in Conmplete...

Matt Leishman

01-14-2003, 08:05 PM

this is really simple, and probably not the problem. But if you aren't seeing any results in the render window, you may want to make sure that you have added lights to your scene. Fur isn't affected by the default lighting in maya like everything else. Hopefully that helps some.

bentllama

01-15-2003, 03:01 AM

Originally posted by Forgiven God
I'm using Maya Unlimited.
BTW, i think Fur features are not available in Conmplete...

that is why i asked. :)

Forgiven

01-15-2003, 04:34 PM

Sithwarlord: thanks for your help, but i've tried this before, adding a directional light, and it keeps the same. No fur in rendered image. Can anybody please help me?Thx very much!

beaker

01-15-2003, 05:08 PM

If your using polygons you must have UV's on the surface that are in the 0-1 UV space and non overlapping. Also if your using multiUV's you have to make sure the fur is properly linked to the correct uv set(maya 4.5 only, maya 4.0 doesnt support multi uv's with fur).

APSAAUGA

01-15-2003, 08:49 PM

Simply, press F1 and read the tutorial:)

Forgiven

01-16-2003, 04:52 PM

APSAAUGA: Thx for your comment, but if you read the first post of this thread, you'll see that's what i've done! I followed maya's tutorial, the one of the simple poligonal sphere, but no fur at all in render...
BEAKER: Thx, i knew this about polys, but i've tried to use NURBS sphere too and the result is the same.
Why? :shrug:
Any other idea??

dynafx

01-16-2003, 05:09 PM

i've faced this earlier, its not a major problem , reset your preference settings to maya default, when i did this it worked, till then it acted wierdly
hope u can c fur attached now:beer:

Forgiven

01-16-2003, 05:34 PM

dynafx, thanks very much for your comment, i've tried to restore maya settings to default and it worked fine now!!!!
Thanks very much, people!! :beer: :thumbsup:

dynafx

01-16-2003, 05:44 PM

not only for fur, even dynamics , the preferences has to be set to default settings, other wise if u apply fields to fur, it wont work as u want, it may work,with wierd resultts:beer:

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