Fur+Polys+Me= :(

[Carina]

When you use fur on poly's you have to be very careful with your UVs. I would check these first.

[larryvm]

sometimes is good look other ways of made the topology of the fur area trying made it almost like a nurbs patch, specialy the back of the head.

[TiKiMoN]

Use an invisible NURBS "jacket" underneath your poly structure. That's what I did with a hedgehog character I made... as long as the NURBS surface is completely transparent and matches the poly structure, it looks fine. I just didn't have time for that animation to bother with the hassles of fur on polygons, when NURBS gives you all the control you need.

[jonnymac]

Cheers boyz!

Going ahead with a kinda nurbs hood thing,

i shall await further problems when i come to rigging!

[TiKiMoN]

The only problem with rigging is that you're going to have to paint weights for both the NURBS objects and your poly character. But, it's not really all that difficult. Just make sure similar areas on both structures have similar weighting, and you're golden! :)

[Carina]

unless he uses wrap deformers for the rigging...

[TiKiMoN]

But he would still have to include both structures in the appropriate deformers... that's about the same (if not more tedious) than painting weights using a joint skeleton, if I'm not mistaken.

[Grooveholmes]

yeah.. what he said.:D

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