What's the today tool for doing short hair ?

2013-09-03 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi gang, I'm asked for doing a realistic fur on a deer head. Mean short hair fur and not simulated (IMHO). I was wondering if we had good (ice) tools to do it easily nowadays... Isn't it simplest / safest to go the classic Joe Alter (the beloved) hair route ? Or would you recomend Melena or

Re: What's the today tool for doing short hair ?

2013-09-03 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Well for short hair, I am still using old fashion Hair. Although I believe Kristinka has a fur mode, but I have not tried it. 2013/9/3 olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr Hi gang, I'm asked for doing a realistic fur on a deer head. Mean short hair fur and not simulated (IMHO). I was

Re: What's the today tool for doing short hair ?

2013-09-03 Thread Rob Chapman
you only need to go for Melana or Kristinka if you encounter the (since it was released) 15 segment limit with Softimage's implementation of Joe Alter's 'Hair' try doing a plait with 15 segments... so short hair should be ok ..? you can use styling brushes etcas well. good times :) On 3

Re: What's the today tool for doing short hair ?

2013-09-03 Thread olivier jeannel
/try doing a plait with 15 segments... / :) Le 03/09/2013 16:09, Rob Chapman a écrit : you only need to go for Melana or Kristinka if you encounter the (since it was released) 15 segment limit with Softimage's implementation of Joe Alter's 'Hair' try doing a plait with 15 segments... so

Re: What's the today tool for doing short hair ?

2013-09-03 Thread Mathieu Leclaire
If you're doing static short fur, use the classic hair tool since the hair will be procedurally built by the renderer instead of being procedurally built by ICE and then transferred to the renderer. If you have a lot of hair, the transfer of data from ICE to the renderer can become a long