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KDogHall
10-30-2006, 08:24 PM
I am attempting to model a toothbrush with relatively high detail for my thesis but am having trouble with bristles. As it stands now I have just a ridiculous amount of cylinders which has obviously made my poly count unnecessarily high. I'm sure there is a better way to represent bristles in Maya, does anyone have suggestions?
Thanks!
Leionaaad
10-31-2006, 03:45 PM
Fur.
If not, mapped geometry. The strands are grouped in a cylindrical fashion. I don't see the point modeling every strand. I think you can get good results with it...

I propose Fur, if you have to do it at very high resolution.
KDogHall
10-31-2006, 04:00 PM
Are you speaking fur in terms of Maya Unlimited? If so our school only has one license for unlimited unfortunately so this wouldn't be an option. I was thinking for now of creating a transparency map on some cone shaped tubes in order to possibly create the illusion of bristles. We'll see how that works.
Leionaaad
11-01-2006, 03:23 PM
there goes out fur...
Well, then you have the other option: geometry. As I said, don't bother to model all the strands. You will need only 16-20 cylinders or so.
Anisotropic highlights and some bump for the shader. It will do the trick. Can-t show pictures now...but go with geometry.
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