Tips on painting short fur textures.

Maxilator

Hey, I'm about to texture a horse model I have just retopoligized, baked, etc. and I'm about to go into texturing, I'm not very used to making animals so I don't really know any tricks or anything like that. Does anyone have any tip on how you usually paint fur like that of a horse (not the mane and tail) in a realistic style as well as using PBR? I usually use substance painter.
I have looked quite a bit on the subject and so far have come up short in finding anything helpful. I looked into using an anisotropic specular but painting a flow map for it seems very convoluted and complex for something like a horse since from what I can tell there is no program that allows you to paint directly on a model, so if anyone knows anything about how I could make that work, that would be helpful as well.

Eric Chadwick

I moved this from General Discussion to Technical Talk.

Have you seen these from the wiki?
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Anisotropic_map
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/HairTechnique
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Flow_map

Knyttet

Heya, did you find a good way for texturing the horse? I'm kind of in the same position, using Substance Painter and having some trouble achieving realistic specular/gloss! I'd be glad to hear how you did it. 

Eric Chadwick

You need anisotropy. Did you check the links I posted? Pretty clear what needs to be done.

Knyttet

Yes, but I'm not concerned about the actual hair (mane/tail) yet, but the actual coat of the horse which in my model is not actual fur/hair. Would I use anisotropy for this? 

Eric Chadwick

Yes.

Maxilator

Oh, forgive me, It's been quite a while since i visited this thread, for anyone finding it in the future and struggled to find a way to paint flow maps, substance painter has a solution: https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/Flow+map+painting 

Just a warning, i've not tried this method myself.

Knyttet

Thanks, that's really helpful. Will try it out!