That is what we are doing and it seems to work ok. It's just a very slow process on 10 mill strands.

How do you guys go about offsetting strands on displaced objects to follow the surface precisely. We are working on an animal model with very short hair, and the geometry has a zbrush displacement map applied. I'm using the same displacement map to push points up or down along their normal to try an...

Hi barbapapa, The quickest way to make it work with aaocean, is to go into the wave curl compound and connect the y between the 3D Vector to Scalar - Scalar to Vector. That section checks if the points on the mesh are below or equal to 0. If yes, then it moves them to 0. This helped to get rid of th...

Hi Zybrand, That is our problem as well. We did manage to find a work around though. There is a cool little compound called something like "deform hair" in Kristinka 3 that works. Check the Kristinka sample scenes. Not sure if it uses uv's but everything stays in the modelling stack and mo...

Hi, I must be losing my mind....In the past I used to get the particle emit location and set the pointposition, so that particles don't swim over a deformed (bones) mesh. This does not seam to work anymore. I feel like and idiot because the only way I can get this to work is to do it in post sim tre...

Argh...post in wrong place. Admin, Please move this post to the right section.

Moderator edit: no problem - HB

Hi, I'm having a hard time to understand the Custom distance evaluation on this tool. We are trying to drive particle size with weightmaps on a surface and also use this weightmap to manipulate the distances between particles over the surface. This would be very handy when you paint away and distanc...

Hi guys and girls, Here is a quick compound I did a while back. It's very basic but it might be useful. The compound emits particles with strands, so create an empty point cloud with simulated ICE tree, and plug in a grid as emitter object. [media]https://vimeo.com/44923153[/media] Here is the downl...

Yes that was it...or the kickstart bit when selecting the projection in the shaders that did the trick.

Thanks Hirazi and especialy Stephen Blair for the help and video.

I'm playing around with CrowdFX and found that I can't change the actors textures. In the docs under CrowdFX "Modifying the Actor's Materials and Textures" it states that one should pick the right projection, which I did, but still nothing. I created a new model from the default pedestrian...

here's one more. Apperantly there is a '92 Siggraph paper on procedural seashell generation' out there.

Thanks diissar!

Here is the full commercial me and the talented guys at Luma did.

Rendered in Arnold. Post in Photoshop.

Here is our latest work.
Lots of fun to do, and well done to all the guys at Luma who worked on this.





More info and concept art here

http://www.luma.co.za/Sandoz

We're loving this tool. Thanks again!

Just one question about scale. Would it be possible to have the true scale under SRT once created?
No matter what size geometry I create, it always shows scale values of 1,1,1

Not a big problem...just wondering.

Wow. Thanks. This will be super useful