how to make a white fur

#5

its shave and haircut and for the body i used maya fur.
next i am gonna use puppet shader for both and see if that’s work.

#6

i am still rendering fur nothing else. (where is my shrink)

lights problem and many more

#7

I would suggest that, before going any further, you change your lighting to one single light casting shadows. The look of the fur will drastically change with shadows on it and definitely look better.

#8

thanks for the lighting tips but right now i didn’t use any light and just for the simple i used maya render and shave & haircut.

#9

fur comb problem.
when i style , comb and set the hair it looks bad. still not like a po (kung fu panda).
any advice or i am just gonna run my own thread ( its not a threat)

#10

i use puppet shader and follow this tutorial
http://kiryha.blogspot.com/2010/06/rendering-fur-with-mental-ray.html
but after the spot light etc it gets little rough

this one is maya rendering

this one is mental ray and the p_hairTK

and this one is after lighting and p_hairtk shader and p_spotTk


is something wrong i did?

#11

so i did some work on fur and it looks fine for me but when i put some spot light on it it gets bad.
here is without spot light

and this one is with 3 spot light

spot light setting is just a

  1. depth map shadow
  2. in mental ray shadow section "use mental ray shadow map overrides
  3. shave shadows “resolution 1500 and fuzz 30”
#12

after i sample up to 4 and softness to 0.1 it look like this

looks like dark shades are gone but it still not looks so good and the render time is high.
7min to 31min.
any advice

#13

still having problem. any help will be appreciated.

#14

I see you are struggling with fur. Maybe this maya scene will help you. check it out.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Byk_Ogxb81S2RveklrdlRXclk/edit

#15

result is so good and this is what i want but the problem is i can’t access to the link it says

“You need permission to access this item.”

can you plz give me the another link or just copy the tutorial and paste it here.

#16

Sorry my bad I made the file private. Try now I think you can download it.
There is no tutorial, I just made it quickly as you can see in the maya file.

#17

thanks lazzhar for the quick reply.
looks like today is my lucky day. i am gonna check the setting and try it on my own project.
right now it looks like this.

#18

tweak tweak and tweaking
but

#19

Is there a chance I can have a look at your file?
I am on maya 2010 so save the file as ma please.

#20

it will be gr8. right now i am using maya 2011 and thanks for pointing me save as a ma file.
looking forward to your reply.
it takes 5min to render. i used two hair system one for the body and one for the face.
i gonna email you this file right now
thanks for your reply and i really appreciated.

#21

This is the best I can get.
I do think you still need to spend some time combing the fur with the direction of the body like on the chest and face… also I see your model is very low poly, maybe smoothing it and make it more rounded would help.
As for lights please check carefully the setting in my previous file. You need detailed shadows activated and put your lights carefully. Start with one light as suggested earlier, if you like it add a second one fill light then a kick(from the back). In my scene I didn;t name them but you can guess from their order.

#22

sorry for my obvious mistakes like low poly and not so good combed. i did import your lights in my scene but my model was too big and i have to resize it and adjust the fur again
but
i am gonna try stepwise just like you said (put one light and tweak settings and then another also smooth and comb)
the big problem for me is that i don’t know which part of setting i have to focus.
i assume its a same setting which you did for your model ?
thanks gain lazzhar.

#23

You have to keep it simple.
Add a spot light, aim it very well to your subject as a key light( check any tutorial on 3 point lighting), enable shadow map, then down in mental ray change shadow map Format from “Regular Shadow Map” to “Detailed Shadow Map” . That’s all.
Will upload the scene file of the latest render in few minutes.

#24

that would be gr8 if you upload it and yes you are right about 3point lights and i did search some tutorials and i am gonna do with my own and see how far i can go.