Fur material test

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Greetings to all,

I am trying to make long hair cow hide...and i bumped into these problems:

- hairs r by default created with 3 sides, which brings problems with closeups, where u can clearly see the fur faces

- because the hairs have only 3 sides, they r picking up reflections very badly as you can see on the picture...

- my question is...how can i improve the fur material and fur object?

- should not vray smooth out the 3 sides of the fur? because in my image, it clearly doesnt

- can i somehow set the fur so it is generated with more sides?

- currently, i have th ematerial set to 50% reflection with a falloff...and am not very happy with the way the fur reflects the environment....

can you help me out please??



thanks

best regards

[jacksc02]

Martin,
Haave you done the fur with VRayFur or Max's hair/fur?

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

hello, its vray fur....i have tried maxes fur too but it would take a lot of time for me to tune it up and find out all the functions so i left that idea and stuck to the vray fur

[jacksc02]

try turning off "flat normals" and see if that helps.
The "sides" option is disabled which is what you need to make your strands smoother.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

yeah i know but how to i enable it?

[jacksc02]

you buy vlado lots of scotch whiskey!

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

hahahhahaaaaa

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

this is much better in my opinion
thanks for help....i think i am satisfied with this result!

[vlado]

The fur strands do not have sides; they are intersected as thin cylinders. Turning off the "flat normals" option may provide a better result.

Best regards,
Vlado

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

ok vlado, thanks, the image above is done with flat normals to "off"

[jacksc02]

yeah that looks better!

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

now its more about finetuning the material i guess, but i would need to make a higher res to reveal the highlights