Kristinka Hair Tests

[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 )))

[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

[rray]

Working on a more diffuse hairline. This is still much too dense

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[rray]

Experimenting with weight maps--

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[rray]

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[scaron]

these are amazing... keep em coming!

[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!

[miga]

Experimenting with weight maps--

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

[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 ) 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!

[izze]

Thanks for the info. Great tests!

[rray]

Btw: I just read on the Softimage mailing list, the pixel size unit thing was changed in 2011.

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[Ahmidou]

yes, it's working now ;)

[Hirazi Blue]

@rray - Tutorial?

[rray]

There is something in the making

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

[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?

[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...