wow, looks like it's really fast for raytracing!

rray wrote:I have a lot of heads lying around that need a little hairdo

heads lying around ->

Thanks for sharing your compounds mathaeus! Very nice work!

Version 1.10 is released!
More info at the first post

I can see from your pictures that syflex works quite well for making wrinkles. The big problem with simulation is the artistic control. It can get very time consuming to tweak the simulation parameters over and over and running the simulation again. I have heard maya's ncloth is the best, followed b...

and another update.
for everyone interested there's a feature tour that gives you a more detailed view on the workflow of mbFeatherTools and its features. you can also see some of the upcoming features of version 1.10.

http://vimeo.com/8053532

thanks for posting this!
I can't read japanese letters but I will try out the blending modes

I found out that the polyons get sorted by their ID if they're all in one mesh, so the trick is to have the higher IDs near the camera and the lower IDs in the background.

It seems like XSI doesn't do any depth-sorting by itself.... what a pity

nassosy wrote: from the the few render tests i did,
i would say that strands have a slight advantage

cool, thanks again for sharing.

Check your links, they don't work.

I would model the wrinkles in ZBrush and then switch back to XSI, or if you have to do it in XSI, add cuts where you want the wrinkles and pull them in with proportional transform?

Nobody able to help?
A DirectX shader would work too! I tried the "MaxViewportShader 1.1" and the shading works, but not the transparency

Very nice! Looks very promising!
I will download it and try it out next time I need grass.

Did anybody do a benchmark yet to compare strands with XSI Hair?
It would be interesting how each system performs in the viewport and at rendertime.

I just wrote a tutorial that also makes use of this plugin.

http://feathertools.michael-buettner.co ... cloth.html

edit: I "tagged" your link (inbetween URL-Tags) - why? look here - HB

Here is a tutorial on how to make deforming feathers.

ICE/Syflex Tutorial
http://feathertools.michael-buettner.co ... cloth.html

Hi all! I'm trying to make an OpenGL shader that will allow drawing several polygons with alphamaps behind each other. Transparency in OpenGL is a basic problem. Read more on it here: http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Transparency_Sorting I think any of those tricks described on the wiki would be perfect! ...

very awesome rendering!
I agree with owei on the floor.
how long did one picture take to render?

First of all the plugin doesn't instance, it duplicates (makes extra copies independent of the original) and it operates on a single PolyMesh at a time. if you want random instancing of groups, ICE already has this functionality built-in ... Yes, ICE makes instances, and your plugin makes duplicate...