Maya fur system?

[joa_grilo]

Hi,
I've read everywhere that v-ray can't render maya hair system.
It works fine with maya n-hair but not with fur?

What should be my workflow?

If true any other way to get fur in vray? Just v-ray fur?

Thanks

[vlado]

You could use VRayFur, Maya hair, Yeti or Shave&Haircut.

Best regards,
Vlado

[joa_grilo]

Thanks .
Any plans on having a styler for v-ray fur in maya ? I can work as this thread http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...yler-for-Maya/
but i would prefer a styler.

[svetlozar.draganov]

We have that as a feature request into our system but we are not able to give any time frame for its implementation.

[vlado]

Any plans on having a styler for v-ray fur in maya ? I can work as this thread http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...yler-for-Maya/
but i would prefer a styler.

We do have a fur styler plugin in development, but I'm not sure how useful it is yet.

Best regards,
Vlado

[FSGFX]

i have high hopes for a good xGen support with vray 3.0
think thats the way to go...

[vlado]

i have high hopes for a good xGen support with vray 3.0
think thats the way to go...

Having worked now with the X-Gen "API" for a while now, I'm having some doubts about that statement. We will render it for sure, as best as we can manage with the tools that we are given. But it looks to me that 3rd party solutions like Yeti might be more practical.

Best regards,
Vlado

[FSGFX]

that sounds like the given "API" does not support what you need..?
maybe we should knock on Autodesks door if something is missing...

or do you think the hair/fur creation process is to complicated..?

[vlado]

that sounds like the given "API" does not support what you need..?

It's just a separate system that's glued on top of Maya in some very hacky way. It's not properly integrated as part of Maya at all and we have to jump through hoops to get the render data. Extremely inconvenient and prone to errors.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Zach Gray]

It's just a separate system that's glued on top of Maya in some very hacky way. It's not properly integrated as part of Maya at all and we have to jump through hoops to get the render data. Extremely inconvenient and prone to errors.

Best regards,
Vlado

Noooo! That's bad news! Shave doesn't properly support hair3 due to a curve normal flipping issue that joe isn't interested in since he supplies his own shader, and we can't get yeti in the us because of joes patent dispute and related settlement with yeti when they got scared off by the xgen lawsuit.

I was really hoping that xgen would fill in the gap for maya fur and hair and vray.

[vlado]

I was really hoping that xgen would fill in the gap for maya fur and hair and vray.

Well, let's hope that things will improve Actually we can get you on the V-Ray 3.0 early beta so that you can try out what we have so far.

Best regards,
Vlado