alpha'd low poly fur

usagi

can anyone give me some tips or possibly even a tut for short-ish hair/ fur?

i wanna make something approximating this, without going nuts on the poly count:


thanks

Eric Chadwick

Some ideas in the thread "fur in max" down below.

usagi

yeah, i want to get better using alpha planes though. i can't seem to get my head around where to position them so they look even remotely like hair or fur. i also didn't want to highjack someone elses thread since he specifically said he didn't want to use alpha planes.

Eric Chadwick

Have a look at the "talk slides" for this paper, "Real-time fur over arbitrary surfaces." They show placement of the shells and fins, and some sample textures.
http://research.microsoft.com/~hoppe/#fur

Badge

I was asking about how to do hair and fur well too. i think poop gave me a link that had some tutorials.

see if the search function works here on the forums, or go to www.3dtotal.com and check out their tutorials, i think thats where it was located.