Hair using Blenders new particals

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Anyone getting good results creating hair with particals.I have played a little but have trouble getting the hair to follow a style using the curve guides.At the moment I think I may stick to building a hair mesh & creating a alpha map for more control,Any coments?

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8435/newgirl25me.jpg

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This is the best test I have gotten with current hair system:

http://bgdm.katorlegaz.com/Crow/crow_hair_001.jpg

Only one guide used for that emitter.

The main thing to remeber is to utilize the STRAND settings in the Material. Also, make sure you add a Blend texture to the material as well. That really helps.

BgDM

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From the little bit of work that I’ve done with hair particles, here’s a couple thoughs that might help:

  1. Make parts in the hair with seperate meshes on seperate layers. That way your curve guides making a particular “style feature” for the hair won’t cause problems with your other curve guides.

  2. Try adding some force-field empties in addition to your curve guides to style the hair further.

  3. Do what BgDM said for the material.:wink:

DwarvenFury

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off topic: your skin looks a little shiny - but otherwise superb!
bgdm and dwarven fury know what they’re talkin’ about.

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Hm, forcefields and vortexes may cause a really bad hairdo…

http://www.dermonster.de/pix/hairdo.jpg

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Where’s a good tutorial for this hair and the new Particles on v2.40?

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Here http://www.blender3d.org/cms/New_Particle_options_a.721.0.html

or here http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartXIII/Particle_Hair

The rest you should figure out yourself… :wink:

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I saw the first one, the second one is better.

Thanks.

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off topic: can you tell me how you did your skin. It looks very good to me!
Thanx, Twan

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The skin is far from being finished. Just play around with some different shaders and look what kind suites you well. Go for a soft and not too high Spec. I used a Col Ramp from black-brown over orange to greyish light pink. Then paint some very dark red as a vertexcolour (a bit here and there) and some more on the nose and ears. Use a noisy bumpmap.

But anyway. There are better Turorials out there. And I’m far from being finished with this model…

A newer version is on my website: www.dermonster.de