VRayFur styler for Maya

[johnchen]

Vrayfur styling tut and tips

Hi Guys, I've written a detailed tutorial for my setup. Hope it helps people to use vrayFur, I think its a very useful fur plugin.

http://www.vfxforge.com/blog/workflo...r-vrayfurmtl3/

PDF VERSION - http://www.vfxforge.com/wp-content/u...tl3forMaya.pdf

Thanks!

[dre4mer]

Very nice information thank you! I to had trouble finding what I needed to know when I began playing with hair and this is exactly the kind of resource we need! Could you maybe also post this in the v-ray fur thread in the tutorials section?

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...-hair-tutorial

-Ethan
http://mayazest.blogspot.com/

[johnchen]

Your welcome Ethan, my pleasure, I actually came across your tut when I was testing zbrush fibermesh to hairsystem, was very helpful.

Feel free to repost the link to the tutorial where you like.

Very nice information thank you! I to had trouble finding what I needed to know when I began playing with hair and this is exactly the kind of resource we need! Could you maybe also post this in the v-ray fur thread in the tutorials section?

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...-hair-tutorial

-Ethan
http://mayazest.blogspot.com/

[t.petrov]

Hi,

Thank you for posting the tutorial, it is great when people share their knowledge.
But could I point out one spelling error - the name of the material is not VRayFurMtl3, but VRayMtlHair3.
Currently you'll confuse your readers and search engines a bit.

/Teodor

[johnchen]

How embarrassing... thanks for the heads up. should be fixed.

*/ facepalms myself

[geoff_3d]

Yeah i figured out the bend direction map painting technique myself - but that doesn't make it any easier to paint! We need someone (not me to code up a little plugin / script that takes artisan strokes (vector?) and converts them into the appropriate colour for the map. It's so trial-and-error at the moment. Then VRay fur would really be great.

[vlado]

Yep; in 3ds Max we just used its own painting API which worked pretty well; we have to figure out if there something like this in Maya that we can use.

Best regards,
Vlado