V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

[bdancer]

Hey there!

Want a new year present? He-he-he

V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12 (beta)

Watch this: it is a hair geometry generation system for V-Ray/Blender.

[vimeo:2h3ms9rf]8083940[/vimeo:2h3ms9rf]

Now you can create animated hair for your projects!

More features in upcoming release:

• Improved distributed rendering support (mainly between the same OSs, sorry)[/*:m:2h3ms9rf]
• Fixes:[list:2h3ms9rf]
• RayMir texture (was inverted)[/*:m:2h3ms9rf]
• Fresnel fix (RayMir slider not break Fresnel now)[/*:m:2h3ms9rf]
• Exr 32bit (was 16bit)[/*:m:2h3ms9rf]

[/*:m:2h3ms9rf][/list:u:2h3ms9rf]

May be I'll add something more =)

[acewings06]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

Oh my god yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!! i've so been looking forward to this bdancer....i love you :P

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

acewings06
Glad you like it =)

All
I change hair generation process so that it doesn't create temporary objects inside Blender. It doesn't properly delete them (that not actually a bug, thats how unlink works) so that after export your blend-file become, for example, 1.2Gb size
So, please, update once again.

One more video.
The same scene, but with a little tweaked cloth simulation. This time I render 100 frames by one export (previous was split in 20 frames per export-render) - geometry file takes 3.2Gb (6000 hairs).
[vimeo:3j01rehh]8093312[/vimeo:3j01rehh]

[jorisAR]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

Waaaw this really is looking good...

Keep up the good work!

cheers

[StompinTom]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

That looks awesome!

I'm in the middle of buying Vray Standalone because my license ran out (probably because I had some hardware changes...) for the Beta versions and I figure I should get the latest version. Can't wait to try this out!

I'm assuming it works to make grass as well? What are exporting times like?

Also, any news on the script's Blender 2.5 development?

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

StompinTom

I'm assuming it works to make grass as well? What are exporting times like?

It's only the first try of hair export. Of course I plan to add templates like hair, grass, some types of carpet etc.
Export time depends on hair count and render path steps (on visualization panel of particles settings ):
on test scene there are 6000 hairs with 3 render steps -> 1 frame export is about 1.1 seconds.

Also, any news on the script's Blender 2.5 development?

Everything only next year.

Some hair fun =)
[youtube:1bhsno74]3bvti_-6kKE[/youtube:1bhsno74]
Better quality: http://vray.cgdo.ru/tmp/hair/005.mov (3.8Mb)

And some more )
[youtube:1bhsno74]nqzfDZGHSW8[/youtube:1bhsno74]
Better quality: http://vray.cgdo.ru/tmp/hair/006.mov (5.2Mb)

[haikalle]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

Is it possible adjust how thin the hair is? Is this feature added?

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

haikalle
It's just a first demo release. Of course, there will be as much controls as possible in the final.

[UPDATE]
Added thin control to "Object" panel of the script.

[haikalle]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

Thanks a lot. That was fast. There is a bug. If you apply hair to object and press Emitter to enable it. Then try to "export mesh" twice. It crashes
It Dosen't crash if you change "hair thin" everytime before pressing "export mesh"

[cjd2]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

WWWWOOOOWWWWW , ESPECTACULAR , VERY VERY GOOD!!!!!!
Thank you for all .
CHAU
cjd2

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

haikalle
Yep, it crashes a lot. It seems like python api bug. I need to test it more carefully.

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

wow, this is really exciting!


Andrey, did you use VRayFur for this, or does it render the hair natively?

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

soulofsound
There is no VRayFur for V-Ray Standalone. I just generate hair mesh.

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

Very nifty! Can't wait to test it in the morning.

[marcatore]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.49.12

to reduce memory usage you can try to set this fur object with dynamic option.

If I'm not in trouble this should be like export fur object as vrayproxy... is it right??

Do you think it's possible to have vrayproxy in vray4blender??

This shall be really a good feature...to exchange models from other 3d apps where vary is installed.