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Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 08 Mar 2010, 11:18
by mirkoj
These looks really great!

I was wondering, Anto, if it would be possible for you to make a nice video tutor or something to get us fast into process?
Being a bit low with time it is hard to get into more details but I would love to check this hair more. I've downloaded some version a while ago and never get a chance to play with it really. Some video tutorial that can put us into speed with tool would be really fantastic. I know it is a lot and take a lot of time but..
I would love to implement that hair in my projects and spread it around but it is hard to start learning and testing something in the middle of project with deadline ;)))
Keep up the great work and I really hope that we will see more of your hair around. Well not YOUR but.. you know what I mean :)))))

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 08 Mar 2010, 21:19
by Mathaeus
Hi there,

As you probably noticed, images in this gallery were created by RRay, not be me :) I added only one...

The first on my todo list, is to finish Node Reference that RRay already started - especially I would like to add a few explanations about nodes. Also, small updates to existing tutorial. Then I planning to play with Eric Mootz's plugins that I already bought, but didn't had a time for them :)

Now seriously, I hope there will be another tutorials.

Cheers

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 09 Mar 2010, 14:28
by rray
Working on a more diffuse hairline. This is still much too dense
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Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 12 Mar 2010, 19:37
by rray
Experimenting with weight maps--
this WM controls hair length and density
this WM controls hair length and density
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ICE tree
ICE tree
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Resul,
Resul,
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Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 14 Mar 2010, 20:58
by rray
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Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 15 Mar 2010, 00:50
by scaron
these are amazing... keep em coming!

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 16 Mar 2010, 16:45
by izze
Hey rray, can you please share more information about linking the strand size to camera distance? How to go about that? The hair I have looks great until I pull the camera back, then it gets thicker. Thanks!

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 16 Mar 2010, 18:46
by miga
rray wrote:Experimenting with weight maps--
Image
That one looks really nice!

edit: Oh, quoting images doesn't work; I'm talking about the curly short black hair

Moderator edit: go to the image properties, copy the image url & place it inbetween [img] tags... - HB

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 16 Mar 2010, 21:37
by rray
Thanks Steven, I will continue the spamming^^

izze, I've never done this but try something like this.
The hair will have to get thinner when it's further away from the camera. There's usually a ^2 somewhere in the equation when it comes to distance/size relationship but I don't know the exact math.
I would try 1/(ctr_dist_cam(emitter_nurbs)^2) as a factor for the hair thickness.
Also if you intend to modify the camera's fov, I would work this in as a factor as well.
So unless there's something fundementally wrong with my maths here (probably is :ymblushing: ) you would set something like 1/(ctr_dist_cam(emitter_nurbs)^2) * (1/Camera.camera.fov) * 5 as the expression for "size" in kH_Emit_Guides (try different values for the "5" depending on the hair thickness you want)

miga, thanks!

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 17 Mar 2010, 16:35
by izze
Thanks for the info. Great tests!

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 17 Mar 2010, 19:38
by rray
Btw: I just read on the Softimage mailing list, the pixel size unit thing was changed in 2011.
*-:) *-:)
lit by devebec's building.hdr. The optimize compound helps a lot fitting all those hair into 2 GB RAM
lit by devebec's building.hdr. The optimize compound helps a lot fitting all those hair into 2 GB RAM
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Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 11:06
by Ahmidou
yes, it's working now ;)

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 11:11
by Hirazi Blue
@rray - Tutorial? :ympray: :D

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 19 Mar 2010, 22:54
by rray
~o) There is something in the making

Don't want to promis too much :^o could take a bit

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 15:27
by druitre
Btw: I just read on the Softimage mailing list, the pixel size unit thing was changed in 2011.
What will (all of) the consequences of that change be? From this thread I understand at the moment there's a problem when rendering animations with K-hair (the hair thickness doesn't stay constant relative to world space), right? Is it a MR issue or something else?

Re: Kristinka Hair Tests

Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 15:39
by Mathaeus
It's Softimage issue, that can be fixed by adding a few nodes. Consequence is that hairs looks thinner with camera zoom and reverse, also, render region and final render can look different...

For animations, without some wild camera movements, I found the current option a bit better, to be honest. Seems to be much easier to get correct anti aliasing...