Hair

Megatron · 28th January 2009, 01:34 PM

Does any one know a good way to hair?
Thanks :mrgreen:

Megatron · 28th January 2009, 01:45 PM

Also, can someone tell me how to pose a model? Help is appretiated.

lisa · 3rd February 2009, 05:27 PM

Dennis has a fur plug-in you might like:
http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dplug/fur.html

You can also use the "fins and shells" method. Make several layers of your model--at least 6 to 10--and then put a semi-transparent texture with spiky dots on it. It will look like hair or fur.

Megatron · 3rd February 2009, 09:54 PM

Sort of like a lot of polygons coming of the person's head in the shape of hair?

Dennis · 3rd February 2009, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Megatron

Sort of like a lot of polygons coming of the person's head in the shape of hair?

That pretty much sums up the fur plugin. It generates one polygon for each strand of fur/grass/hair/etc. It's nice for small amounts of the stuff, but if you're looking to make a full head of hair on a character, it's probably not practical --- creates quite a bit of geometry.

Plugin:
http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dplug/fur.html

Tutorials:
http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dtut/plu...ur_basics.html
http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dtut/plu..._basics_2.html

Lisa's example is a texture-based solution, I believe, which would be much more practical for larger amounts of hair.

Megatron · 4th February 2009, 05:52 PM

That solved my hair problem

Now is there an easy way to pose a figure once you've created it? Will I need a rendering program or something? I also had another problem while texturing some things. I set a texture to a cylinder and most of the faces adapted to the texture corectly but one of the faces was just filled in as a single colour. I tryed fixing it with the texture coordinator but it showed up as a microscopic dot in the bottom left corner of the texture coordinator. If that made any sense, is there an easier way of fixing than drawing an identical polygon over top of it and assigning it the correct texture?

28th January 2009, 01:34 PM	#1
Megatron Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 4	Hair Does any one know a good way to hair? Thanks :mrgreen: __________________ -- -Ryan

28th January 2009, 01:45 PM	#2
Megatron Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 4	Re: Hair Also, can someone tell me how to pose a model? Help is appretiated. __________________ -- -Ryan

3rd February 2009, 05:27 PM	#3
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: Hair Dennis has a fur plug-in you might like: http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dplug/fur.html You can also use the "fins and shells" method. Make several layers of your model--at least 6 to 10--and then put a semi-transparent texture with spiky dots on it. It will look like hair or fur. Attached Thumbnails

3rd February 2009, 09:54 PM	#4
Megatron Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 4	Re: Hair Sort of like a lot of polygons coming of the person's head in the shape of hair? __________________ -- -Ryan

4th February 2009, 05:52 PM	#6
Megatron Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 4	Re: Hair That solved my hair problem Now is there an easy way to pose a figure once you've created it? Will I need a rendering program or something? I also had another problem while texturing some things. I set a texture to a cylinder and most of the faces adapted to the texture corectly but one of the faces was just filled in as a single colour. I tryed fixing it with the texture coordinator but it showed up as a microscopic dot in the bottom left corner of the texture coordinator. If that made any sense, is there an easier way of fixing than drawing an identical polygon over top of it and assigning it the correct texture? __________________ -- -Ryan