Cory get's the new Blender particle hair :)

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http://www.hamsterking.com/blender/3d/coryhair4.jpg

I’ve tested the new “Particle Hair” feature we’ve got in the upcoming 2.40.
Of course, it’s not with styling tools yet - so he’s got to do with “wild-hair”,
but making hair is real simple now.

The above image was rendered with the internal renderer + ambient
occlusion which took about forever (1 hour) to render on a 2 ghz Amd.
But without AO (or GI) then hair would look horrible.

The next time - you will probably see Cory here with a new hair-cut,
from the looks of this image - he needs it …badly! :slight_smile:

Anyway - I think it’s the most amazing hair I’ve ever seen on Blender
again -> Kudos to the developers!

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:o That looks great, too bad about the render time.

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Nicely done hair.

Unfortunately… aside from needing a haircut, it looks kind of like it would be good if that hair (nice as it may be) actually appeared to be connected to his skull…

But nice hair nonetheless.

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Yeah the side of the head bares no hair but it still does looks great, i think the hair also looks great. looking forward to that haircut.

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Man, I’d love to see your settings for that.

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Would be nice if we could see viriations for differen coloured hair

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oh boy, she really needs a hairbrush. have you seen the new ‘guides’? you add a curve and use that to tell the particles where to go, and you can crank the influence way up too. latest build also has the explode patch, which i tried last night, and it was quite cool.

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Whoa !!
that looks awesome dude, gotta try the particles soon

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Settings? No problemo…here ya go…

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%| And can you give the materials settings too please? Thanks.

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of course…

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Thanks, this helps a lot.

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Don’t get me wrong, it looks great, but why put a mullet on a little kid?

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I assume you’ve never seen the Jungle Book ^^

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nice hair…
Modron,

how do you use the explode modifier? I tried turning particles on, static on/off, soft on/off, tried splitting the mesh a little, and got nothing when I hit Alt-A…What’s the trick?

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Wow! so this new particle hair will be a tool in Blender 2.40?

Will it be easy to apply the hair onto the model? For example, when you apply subsurf, it’s just a matter of clicking the “SubSurf” button. Would applying the hair be as simple, just a click away?

I’ve tried using RipSting’s FibreScript, and its very hard to control how the results will turn out, I couldn’t get the basic shape of hairs and the results always turn out looking funny (not hairs at all). I’m not saying this script is bad, I love it infact.

Well, I hope Blender 2.40 will be released soon, :stuck_out_tongue: I can’t wait to try it out.

Wolf

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By the way, is Cory a boy or a girl?

Just curious.

Some hair from Cory’s temple down to the cheek bones will make the hair looks connected to the head.

Wolf

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Wolf

Cory is a boy, but the answer to your question is nearly a yes - it’s
quite simple to applyhair. It’s still particle-hair and you still have
to use particles, but it’s way easier than before, just take a peek at the
settings earlier in this thread to get a hint.

I didn’t use hair guides even though a particle patch exists…because
it’s not in CVS yet… but it should be fairly easy as particles should
attract towards AND follow simple curve shapes.

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Particles (finally) cast shadows?

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Only the static particles, because they are rendered as a 1px wide mesh… normal particles still don´t cast shadows