Converting Vrayfur to geo

[Joezeta]

How do I convert a vrayfur object to splines, or geometry?

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Would be nice if we are able to bake fur to Geometry

[Joezeta]

So it's impossible?

[Muhammed_Hamed]

I don't think there is a way to do that

[JD3D_CGI]

I don't think there is a way to do that

Do you actualy know for a fact that you can't, or are you just guessing?

[matanov]

Do you actualy know for a fact that you can't, or are you just guessing?

He's guessing right.

Why do you need this?

[JD3D_CGI]

He's guessing right.

Why do you need this?

Because a client needed some grassy fur stuff (fake plastic clumps of grass for an exhibition), but then decided they wanted the scene reduced down to an OBJ so they could send it to an architect.

In the end I re-did everything in Forestback - but, as always, it's nice to have the option to squash things down if needs be.

No worries though! don't make it a priority!

[piotrus3333]

Hair and Fur modifier from 3ds max can do that.

edit - I mean: be turned to mesh, not turn VRayFur to mesh.

[guido_odendahl]

Hi,

That would be also very interesting for me. I don't mean the Max hair.

I heard about that geo is only just converted on render time, but is there maybe a tool in the utility section? Maybe with the most recent version.. I guess that could be very useful, sometimes more than max hair.

If not, has anyone experience with getting fur information (mean root position, bend direction etc) via Maxscript or is this also not possible?

Thanks in advance

[super gnu]

it would be (for the 50th time) great to have the option to export rendertime geometry (fur, displacement) as vrayproxy, alembic, or similar. im sure it should be doable (it gets generated for sending to gpu for rendering there?)

it doesnt need to be smart ( ive seen objections based on the fact its view dependent) just give us the option to bake out what the renderer gets. if you dont want view dependence, turn it off. maybe you do want it, for a fixed cam position. it would give a less heavy mesh to load and guaranteed to render nicely.

for me, displacement is potentially more interesting than fur, since generating high quality mesh displacement in max is pretty impossible.

Sure, you can finely subdivide a mesh and use the displacement modifier, but that grinds to a halt frighteningly quickly.

If you want a really nice displaced mesh you can modify after the fact, you need to turn to zbrush etc...seems silly (and expensive) if vray can generate suitable meshes in a few seconds..

It would give us a decent route to generating collision meshes, for example which match what the vraydisplacement mod does at rendertime. or scattering objects over landscapes.. or exporting for other software/realtime uses.. it isnt exactly hard to think of use cases.

[guido_odendahl]

Hi super gnu,

yep, that's right, displacement would also be cool, even it's not the most important thing for me.

With regard to the export of scattered objects, Itoo shows it very nicely. In my 3D pony farm there would be a similar export tool for Vray Fur (or other @Rendertime Geometries) as for Railclone / ForestPro.

[yavor.rubenov]

Hello,

Recently we've added an option to VRayDisplacementMod to save it's result to a vrmesh file (available in the official builds already). It's accessible through MAXScript with something like:

$.modifiers[#VRayDisplacementMod].write_vrmesh="D:\\test.vrmesh"

Then on the next render the displacement will be written to the specified vrmesh file.

I guess we can add something similar for Fur too.

Best regards,
Yavor

[^Lele^]

Recently we've added an option to VRayDisplacementMod to save it's result to a vrmesh file (available in the official builds already). It's accessible through MAXScript with something like:

$.modifiers[#VRayDisplacementMod].write_vrmesh="D:\\test.vrmesh"

Then on the next render the displacement will be written to the specified vrmesh file.

Ah! How had i missed this! Christmas in July!

[piotrus3333]

works like a charm.

[^Lele^]

I made a small script to process selected/all nodes, find it stuck in the general thread.
Limited, to be sure, but perhaps it may serve as template.