VRayEnmesh modifier

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Hello cloth rendering by the fiber.
Stunning stuff, i love it.

The above test makes me wonder: would you think you could make the tiled patch smaller, and more detailed, adding stray cloth strands here and there?
Would it change the look from afar, or just introduce noise?
Also, did you use a vrayMtl or a hair shader for the fibers?

[kosso_olli]

I'm really liking Enmesh! Below is an intricate transparent curtain I made for a project I'm working on at the moment. All parts of the curtain are made entirely out of 3D elements. With the help of Enmesh, I effortlessly covered the whole cloth surface with a patch from the curtain. According to the render stats tab, Enmesh had spawned 360,000 primitives, each made of 138,000 polygons. This makes 50 billion rendered polygons with ram usage of just 700 MiB (with the Bucket sampler). Props to the devs!! The curtain patch model took me less than an hour to make and then Enmesh did the rest. This would have not looked anywhere near as good for close-up shots or reacted the same way to lighting if I had made this with a texture. Not to mention it was SO much easier to edit the 3D model of the curtain patch than editing a texture both in terms of shape and material properties.

It does look very nice! But in the close-up of the rendered curtain, it seems the height of the individual strands is skewed compared to the single patch you are feeding in. It kinda looks the same as having too much height on a displacement map.

[Alex_M]

Thanks, guys. I really had fun making this.

Hello cloth rendering by the fiber.
Stunning stuff, i love it.

The above test makes me wonder: would you think you could make the tiled patch smaller, and more detailed, adding stray cloth strands here and there?
Would it change the look from afar, or just introduce noise?
Also, did you use a vrayMtl or a hair shader for the fibers?

Haha, indeed. One does wonder what the limits are here.
The patch is entirely VrayMtl. No hair shaders. I haven't tried adding cloth strands since it wasn't needed in this case. Although I can see blankets, sweaters, hats, etc. benefitting by adding some hairs. For example, you could duplicate the mesh used for scattering, make it non-renderable and add a hair modifier to it to create hairs that poke through the enmesh to create this fuzzy hairs effect. I'm almost tempted to try it out.

It does look very nice! But in the close-up of the rendered curtain, it seems the height of the individual strands is skewed compared to the single patch you are feeding in. It kinda looks the same as having too much height on a displacement map.

Good catch! This is already fixed.

[BBB3]

Fantastic stuff. Is it still the plan to have this functioning in V-Ray GPU for the first release?

[matanov]

Fantastic stuff. Is it still the plan to have this functioning in V-Ray GPU for the first release?

I don't remember any promises for the first release The official release is very near and there will be no time to do it for V-Ray GPU. Probably with Update 1.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Fantastic stuff. Is it still the plan to have this functioning in V-Ray GPU for the first release?

Hey Bertrand,

V-Ray Enmesh support on GPU is planned, once V6.0 is out we will have a timeline for this feature. I will message here about this soon

Best,
Muhammed