Fibermesh and other hairy creation funstuffs
WendyLuvsCatz
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video of Dog 8 coat, click to play
I am having fun with Zbrush and decided to start a hairy art thread so others can share too
Carrara also has a dynamic hair to mesh plugin thanks to Philemo and of course there is LAMH, Garibaldi and Blender particle hair to be had
so all can join in and share their creations and experiments too
and any suggestions
my new realization zero length best for using the transfer utility then adding length with morphloader works with Zbrush Fibermesh and Carrara hair exports
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stiff furred cat video
now I am trying a Dforce sim, expecting to crash my video card driver
Dforce Furred cat video
Wendy, have you had any luck, or have you tried, with DS LAMH AM Catalyzer for fur/hair, ... eg AM's wolf2.0 and then exporting to Zbrush? I do not seem to be able to merge the hair and wolf in a way that zbrush will open. I thought someplace a while back I saw a way to do that. I'd like to import into Carrara as well. I save as scene subset and then Carrara just gets stuck at about 14%.
Some of AM's older figures, like the bear... will export the fur bit to Carrara... and it comes in separately right from the duf file (you can open it furred). Maybe that's it... you have to apply the fur for the Catalyzer in DS? It is not a packaged file option to load?
Sorry for the load of rubbish explanation, but I am hopeful you might know what I am trying to do? The long shaggy wolf coat on AM's Wolf 2.0 is really good and I make it a bit longer. It looks good even in a DS spot render. I have trouble in Carrara being able to evenly hair thin animal legs. Also, the gray European wolf has complex colouring and AM nailed it well.
Not much time to work with things, but hope to in a few weeks... eyeball stuff going on.
Am following your work in this thread, even though I don't animate. Cool stuff!
Cheers, Silene
I don't have the catalyzer and as far as I know it just streamlines the processif exporting the fiberhair from LAMH
that stuff is very highpoly and no, Carrara not fond of it.
once exported it is just a static mesh so cannot be made back into hair again
you can try getting the density maps out and making them black and white
they are black and red
then try them in Carrara's density for carrara hair
Thanks... I did read this thread below some time ago... but my eyes just glazed over....
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/14818/look-at-my-hair-lamh-official-thread-update-1-6-0-1-released/p48
Will have another look sometime... it's the patterning I am after, so if I can convert the density map... then it's back to Carrara for me!
ETA: I don't know... the patterning is almost brindle like and very distinct... will the density maps help with that? My last Carrara hair wolf had so many layers, but it was still hit or miss. And the animals were predominantly white with some grays mixed in.
Might have to work in DS and just use the exported render in the scene...
The LAMH plugin will not create LAMH Catalyst compatible hair. All LAMH Catalyst compatible hair that you have seen was created by Alessandro. I have inquired to the LAMH team several times whether LAMH will be updated to create LAMH Catalyst compatible hair but have never received a reply.
So that means if you want to iRay render LAMH hair you create you have no choice but to export it as a series of objects in the different poses you will need and than create create morph targets in DAZ Studio. As it is so easy to get so many polygon faces quickly with LAMH you are likely to run into trouble quickly.
more dforce cat fur video
Dforce dog hair video
a slow motion video
this is rather unweildy to really share, I doubt I can even upload it to shareCG as too high poly
https://sta.sh/0znmil89ypq
a WIP for a dforce hair, a lot smaller in size to the one above that I am still trying to upload
not sure what sort of shader to use, most vertically transmapped hairs sort of work but nothing I myself can make and share
anyway you are welcome to download and play with it, redistribute modify whatever just be quick as it may not be up there many days
https://wendyluvscatz.deviantart.com/art/Dforce-dog-8-hair-DAZ-studio-files-751583973
finally the first hair in two zips. you need both
These look really good! If I can't get my Carrara hairing of Wolf 2.0 to work, will give this a try. Maybe should try anyways!
Silene
you will need to convert it to Blended weight in DS as I didn't
Great idea for a thread. Fascinated by your work with the dogs and cats.
I've been playing around with Philemo's plugin. Have had some success getting the meshes and morphs to Studio, but I'm still trying to get up to speed on Iray texture settings. It isn't hard, just not what I am used to. I will follow along for now, but hope to have something to contribute soon (might be Daz soon, though).
Thanks very much!
Ack... I was thinking transfer utility...doh? Thanks, will read Misty's routine thing again, which thankfully I have made with graphics as I do not do this that much now as she made the G3/G8 ready to go in Carrara.
no need it is already rigged, it just needs edit rigging convert to Blended weight on both the hair and the dog
or the rigging will not work in Carrara
and it must not be parented
then save a scene subset
don't forget the dog eyelash whiskers too
I honestly have not tried it in Carrara as we have superior dynamic fur
it was meant as a DAZ studio solution
OK, I managed to use Carrara hair on Wolf 2.0. From the adult model, I morphed two subadults. Making pups was a step too far in distorting the muzzle.
Fast lighting messes about with the hair density and gamma is turned off. Using mixers/blenders for shading hair (patterns, etc) attracts light, even if I turn contrast down. Wanted a brindle effect, but still practicing! No post work so you can see my weakness is getting skinny legs haired. I made a separate hair section for the under-tail area to get a draped shag effect. Maybe I need to make 'gators' for their shins and do the same?
I don't want a photo, I want an illustration effect, so maybe I need to get out Philemo's plugin and learn to work with it.
that is utterly beautiful Seline
Here's one with some postwork in PS which gives sort of a gamma look.... will try Philemo's plugin, too... so much to learn.
Wolves look beautiful! Way to go, SileneUK!