Unofficial Page of FastFur 2.0

[DigitalDream345]

unbelievable Renato i have ordert my Update :-)

Regards

Oliver

[robotbob]

wow - it looks absolutly amazing. well done renato.

[soccerrprp]

VERY NICE, Renato!

[PKid]

Just sent you my money. Looks great!

[Rich-Art]

Great job Renato.

I have the Hair module, otherwise I would order a copie...

Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[RenatoT]

Hi all,

thanks all for the confidence.

Rich-Art: I have Hair too :)

Any time that i try to use Hair.. i feel depressd because it's a great piece of software, it's a Gem.

But FastFur can have different workflow and for easy jobs can be funny to use it :)

Cheers
Renato T.

[boxy]

I agree Renato. Much as I love Hair I still prefer FastFur for some things. This looks like an superb update at an insane upgrade price :)
Thanks
Boxy

[lllab]

fast fur is so much easier and faster to setup- i love it.
and v2.0 seems even better.

when transformed into polys it also works great with other renderengines, i am using it very often, also not with AR;-)

also much cheaper than hair, which i think is more towards the more complex-long hair stuff (animated human people etc).

great Renato, cant wait to get the update:-)

cheers
Stefan

[Rich-Art]

Hi all,

thanks all for the confidence.

Rich-Art: I have Hair too :)

Any time that i try to use Hair.. i feel depressd because it's a great piece of software, it's a Gem.

But FastFur can have different workflow and for easy jobs can be funny to use it :)

Cheers
Renato T.

I suppose you're right about this.
But my wallet has a bottom. I know your plugin is cheap compare to what it can do.
But I can't spend €70 if I have only €60 to spend, if you know what I mean. :)
Don't get me wrong, I realy like your plugins and even now I have MoGraph, I still use Pathdeformer and Nota from time to time.
So perhaps I will buy FastFur in the near future..
Who knows what Santa has in his bag for me.:scream:

Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[Mylenium]

Really nice and the price is very acceptable. Could anybody who owns it tell me if it works with MoGraph objects? I would love to support Renato, but since I don't do much organic stuff or arch-viz, the only use I can think of is furry/spikey text and clones for some funky effects. Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks.

Mylenium

[RenatoT]

Hi All,

I'm sorry but fastfur don't support generator but only polygon objects.

In fact, fastfur2.0 some week ago was working with generator... but due to some problems i removed it. Maybe that i can support generators without deformations just to support mograph like objects generator.

Thanks all
Renato T.

[umblefugly]

Hi renato :) Ive been watching this plugin grow since v1.2 and I have to say what I have seen this thing do is just absolutely amazing. Is there any chance of a demo? As I really dont have the cash for Hair this looks like it would be an awesome alternative! If an email is necessary thats fine by me :) Thx in advance!

Eric

[RenatoT]

umblefugly: i'm sorry but there is not a fastfur demo.. yet. I have no time to code it.
But it's a thing that i'll like to do. :)

thanks for your interest
Renato T.

[umblefugly]

NP at all, ill probably just jump in a buy it here real soon :)

[soccerrprp]

NP at all, ill probably just jump in a buy it here real soon :)

Umblefugly,

Warning!: Renato's latest plugin version is compatible with R9.1 and above. If you're signature is correct, you only have R8.5 Studio. You'll need to do some additional investing (upgrading) to take advantage of Renato's beautiful plugin.

Hey, hope i'm wrong on this.

[umblefugly]

Umblefugly,

Warning!: Renato's latest plugin version is compatible with R9.1 and above. If you're signature is correct, you only have R8.5 Studio. You'll need to do some additional investing (upgrading) to take advantage of Renato's beautiful plugin.

Hey, hope i'm wrong on this.

Not at all, my wife also owns Cinema4d 9.603 Core and is costantly bugging me for hair or fur..lol But thanks for lookin out :)

[dennishmiller]

Yes, please! Generators would be an excellent addition.
Thanks!
Dennis
Hi All,

I'm sorry but fastfur don't support generator but only polygon objects.

In fact, fastfur2.0 some week ago was working with generator... but due to some problems i removed it. Maybe that i can support generators without deformations just to support mograph like objects generator.

Thanks all
Renato T.

[Mylenium]

Hi All,

I'm sorry but fastfur don't support generator but only polygon objects.

In fact, fastfur2.0 some week ago was working with generator... but due to some problems i removed it. Maybe that i can support generators without deformations just to support mograph like objects generator.

Thanks all
Renato T.

Oh, that's a pity. Since I'm not pressed for time and can wait a lot longer, I hope you can get it working and I may give it a try then.

Mylenium

[Primitiv]

Great update. I received it earlier and tested some. I love it. However, the sample with the elephant crashes my C4D. It may be because of the rig and have nothing to do with FF2 but I thought I should mention it. Rendering speed is really good.

[RenatoT]

Primitiv: sorry for elephant scene .. it's my fault.

Like i wrote in the email, i'm sorry for the quality of scene inside, i'll make new scene in these days and i'll update the page.

Cheers
Renato T.

[RenatoT]

Hi all,

here you can download some new and older scene for fastfur2.0

www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/FastFur2.0Scenes.zip (http://www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/FastFur2.0Scenes.zip)

More to come :)

Cheers
Renato T.

[ArtofacksOne]

since your web friends are out, maybe we can trade my web development work for your plug-in ;)

[RenatoT]

maybe that we can make a deal :)

.... this mean that you don't like my FF2.0 page? :)

Cheers
Renato

[c4d-jack]

I have tested FF 2.02 Beta with a little computer which would come in handy in winter:

Just about 7 Minutes modelling and 5 Minutes Fur & Shader work:
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/furry_mouse.jpg

Greetings,
Jack

[RenatoT]

Hi All,

Thanks Frank for your testing :)

---------------------------------------

i've just update my fastfur page, here the link: www.tarabella.it/c4dbeta

There is one new explain tutorial to apply some effects to the furs.

The current Release is the 2.05 where you can find a lots of optimizations.

The generate speed is now very fast, clumping was speed up for 100k furs by 3-4 times.. for 500k furs more :)

New noise function applied to the Wave effect that help a lots.

Status bar now is updated and you can in anytime change parameters without waiting the end (i know that this is a normal features... )

Thanks all
Renato T.

[c4d-jack]

And here we have some more demo pics that show the great variety of hair effects we can achieve with FF 2.05:

http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/4.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/8.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/6.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/7.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/5.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/3.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/1.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/9.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/2.jpg
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/worm.jpg

[Rich-Art]

Whooo, that looks real great....


Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[soccerrprp]

I simply want to say- :bounce:

[bellaLugosi]

Hi everybody.

I just purchased the update and i wonder why there's no res folder in the archive?

When i start cinema, it says fastfur v2.05 loaded in the console, but there's no icon in the plugins menu. Also the scenes wont load.. :(

I copied over the old res folder from 1.45, and it would work then, but the interface in the am and the ff icon are the old ones (of course).

Could it be , there's something missing in the new archive or is it just me who's missing something ?


thanks

[RenatoT]

bellaLugosi: sorry was my fault, i sent the correct archive to all.. maybe except some mails :(

http://www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/res2.05.zip

Here the res directory (put it inside the fastfur directory)

Sorry about that
Renato T.

[bellaLugosi]

no problemo :-)

and thanks for the fast help, it works now as it should ;-)

[RenatoT]

I've just added a new optimization called Face To Camera Density.

here the image that show what's appens.

http://www.jun.it/FaceToCameraDensity.jpg

I',ve tested it in animation and is ok.
Thanks all for the great feedback

Cheers
Renato T.

[kiteman]

that's awesome Renato !! :) .. If I didn' get a Hair module , I would have bought F&F ! ( I'm working on fur these days ! ^^ MyWipFur (http://kiteclem35.free.fr/3D/C4D/Rabbit/test-hair6.jpg) )

thank you for your excellent work anyway :) !!

[soccerrprp]

Renato,

You rock!

Kiteman,

Nice character!

[Rich-Art]

Great work Renato....


Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[RenatoT]

Hi all,

I've made a promotional august page of fastfur

The details are on my fastfur page:
http://www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/FastFur2.html

Direct link to the promotions:
http://www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/AugustPromotion/AugustPromotions.html

I've changed the combing routine, now the fur is effects by all splinepoints with the correct influence, so the fur will have a better and progressive orientation.
News on my site :)

Cheers
Renato T.

[PKid]

Hi Renato:

You've made several great changes with optimization and spline controls since your first release of FF2 so how do I get those newer changes? Or are they already built into the FF2 update that I purchased?

Thanks and great work!
Clarence

[RenatoT]

Hello Pkind,

in few days i'll release the 2.1 with some good improvements and features
and some little bug fixed.

In fact these are the news:

New Combing Routine
Different gravity management
New Optimization feature
Fix on the shader
Faster Clumping
Spline control for Wave
... maybe that i forgot some others things :)
Cheers
Renato T.

[PKid]

What a fantastic reply. Excellent!!! I shall await the update.

[umblefugly]

I think Ill have to wait until a demo version is out b4 I commit to purchase...Thx !

[RenatoT]

Hi all,

You are right, the demo version is needed, some users can test and play with it.

Sorry for now, i promise that i'll do. Maybe a Limited release.

Cheers
Renato T.

[RenatoT]

Hi all,

i'm making some test with the FF 2.0 and i found that with the "fresnel", backface and variable subdivision... it's possible to render a tennis ball like this in 1/3 of time with realistics result. This model have about 800k polygons. So C4D will take on my PC 6 secs to start shadowmap (2 lights) and 36 seconds to make the entire image.

http://www.jun.it/FastFur2_TennisBall.jpg


Cheers
Renato T.

[FR33K]

Hi all,

You are right, the demo version is needed, some users can test and play with it.

Sorry for now, i promise that i'll do. Maybe a Limited release.

Cheers
Renato T.

Hey man that would be nice because i cant afford hair.... so you already know apprimately when we can count on this ltd. release???

btw. Renato you use H264 encoder for your videos, is this the best encoder to make video tuts? I ask you because you have done already many .mov previews so i thought you know whats good or not, right?? just saw you took mov not avi any special reason for that??

[RenatoT]

Ops.. i forgot to tell you all that the original frames is calculated by 1024x768, and the rendering time is at this resolution :)

FR33K: what do you mean with "ltd. release???".
FastFur is ready to ship and i'm releasing the 2.1 with some improvements, and new part for style the fur with kink, frizz, wave, curl and maybe some others.

I prefer Sorenson 3 to encode the videotutorials... but i'll like to find a lighter and better codec for the video.

Cheers
Renato T.

[c4d-jack]

Some more examples made with FF 2.07b.
Made them while working on the manual.

Combing + Clumping:
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/combing_1.jpg

Combing + Clumping:
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/combing_2.jpg

Frizz + Wave:
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/frizz_wave.jpg

UV Map:
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/uvmap_1.jpg

Vertex Map + Wave + Frizz:
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/vertexmap_1.jpg

Vertex Map + Wave + Frizz + Clumping:
http://www.c4d-jack.de/darkside/Fast-Fur_Tests/vertexmap_2.jpg

Greetings,
Jack

[Rich-Art]

Great examples of the power of F&F 2..

Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[FR33K]

FR33K: what do you mean with "ltd. release???".
FastFur is ready to ship and i'm releasing the 2.1 with some improvements, and new part for style the fur with kink, frizz, wave, curl and maybe some others.

I prefer Sorenson 3 to encode the videotutorials... but i'll like to find a lighter and better codec for the video.

Cheers
Renato T.

hehe sorry i meant limited release, i always thought ltd. would be the shortcut for limited ;-)

[RenatoT]

Ah, Ok :)

when the 2.1 will be release i'll transform it in a LTD release :)

Cheers
Renato T.

[RenatoT]

Hi all, here a little video with the curl and other features.
Just a recording..

www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/CurlAndMore.mov


cheers
Renato T.

[c4d-jack]

Wow, I can't wait to test the new release!
Curling function will be put through its paces tonight :D

And, YES, a load & save function. Nice to see our nightly talks have been successful ;-)

You will get a preview of the manual before I go to Turkey.

Greetings,
Frank

[RenatoT]

Thanks Frank, your feedback is precious :) and your furs a bit strong ;)

Thanks again
Renato T.

[robotbob]

this is looking fantastic renato - i have hair but am seriously tempted to get this as well.

pedro

[RenatoT]

Hi :)

thanks robotbob,

here a new dynamic of fastfur 2.1

www.jun.it/NewDynamic.mov

www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/NewDynamic.mov

Cheers
Renato T.

[jsls]

this is looking fantastic renato - i have hair but am seriously tempted to get this as well.

pedro

I have both and all I have to say is get it!!! Both have advantages.....FF's optimizations are amazing, and the hair shader is very cool too...

The new dynamics looks really, really impressive...awesome work!!! :thumbsup:

[RenatoT]

jsls: i'm glad to see that you own Hair and like also fastfur :)

Ok, the 2.1 is ready, here the key point for this release:



New Dynamics
Rewrote styling tools. Curl, Frizz, Wave, Kink.
Changing the subdivision will not more change the furs that you styled.
Save and Load Settings
Density Angle from camera dependent
Fixed bug that fail the correct distribution of fur.
i forgot the others :)
The bad is that older scene need to be restyled and the gravity must be retuned. :(
Thanks all for your support, the 2.1 will be released (i hope) tomorrow after all test and beta feedback.


Cheers
Renato T.

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