Help: Creating Fur - Spreading Geometry/Plane to a surface.

Rhythem02

Hello there friendly folks

I need some help.
I'm creating a believable fur for a game art character.
Can you guys help me find a way to spread a plane to a surface. This can be done manually. It's what I did with the hair. But for the fur I need to find a way to do it without manually placing each plane. Because that would be too tedious and impractical.

Attached are screen grab about it.

Thanks ^_^

.Wiki

I would do it with particles. This should work fine for the first case.

For the second case you would need to define the particle flow by some curves or surface normals combined with some random rotation..

jfitch

I'm not an expert on this, but I'd make an insert brush in zbrush with a UV'd plane, or a couple of them, mask off the area I want the fur to be, and set the stroke to spray for the first case. For the second case I'd set the brush to curve mode and draw a couple of curves of fur, then use the move brush to create some differentiation.

That or you could do some scripting, or there may be some scripts out there that would be useful.

Mark Dygert

Object paint?
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