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Hair Techniques - When should I tweak normals?
In the hair Round Up thread I was surprised to see the SlideNormalThief script being used in one video. It was at the very end of the work, aligning all the hair normals to a blobby shape that resembled the hair's silhouette. Was this used to permanently fix the problem of intersecting hair cards, much like people use this… -
Re: Hair Techniques - When should I tweak normals?
You say improve, but is it really better? How so? Applying the script definitely makes it look different, but I can't tell if better is the case. Does doing this make hair behave better in a wider margin of lightning setups, perhaps? Also, do not answer if this is too big of a tangent, but on the topic of alpha blending… -
Re: Hair Techniques - When should I tweak normals?
Eric, I did read it before asking, sorry if I sounded too ignorant about that. The video you asked for is this one, the script being applied around the 21:30 mark. About transparencies, am I correct to assume the biggest difference between A2C and Blend is that the former does not need depth-sorting-by-ZBuffer, while Blend…
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