Fur Test

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I spent a couple of hours having a real quick look into the viability of fur in jME, using the first j3o I grabbed :



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Inital results from the test scene indicated the effect may be too expensive, however once in a full engine it run very well :



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Based on this I would be happy to start using fur, something I had always assumed too slow. Unfortunatly Maker’s Tale has no need for such effect at the moment.



And it would have been wrong not to spend 60 seconds re-tinting the texture, just to see how would look :



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@jmaasing said:
I had real hair 10 years ago :)

lol, I feel with ya pal xD

great gob @thetoucher and yeah, pretty amazing how fast it seems to be..
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as usual… excellent work!

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Looks like motion blur. The model doesn’t look static and for me, doesn’t make it look like it’s fur. Other than that, excellent job :slight_smile:



EDIT: Correction. The thing that lessens the fur effect is that it’s placed on the horns and other furless parts as well. But I’m sure you already knew that :stuck_out_tongue:

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:o

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Nice! Did you follow any particular tutorial that you could link to? A fur tutorial on xbdev.net has frequently come up on this forum.



How easily can you limit the effect to restricted areas, if at all? I noticed how the horns and equipment were also “furry”.



@mazander [1] and @canis85 [2] might be interested in seeing this, as I know they’ve previously attempted the same thing.

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@erlend_sh yeah its easy to restrict, I did a super rough job of masking the face, horns and weapons, I did miss a heap of tufts, as contrast, same setup but different texture and no “lengthMap” (alphaMap), so uniform fur length…



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This is @canis85 's shader, I’m just having a poke around.

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Nice effect. Obviously the masking can be improved but you can see the potential of it.

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sexy, go on skype :stuck_out_tongue:

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One cool thing would be to have the fins affected a little by gravity so that it falls more naturally. :slight_smile:

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does it purr?

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I think we are going to have real hair in about 10 years, along with other real simulations.

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I had real hair 10 years ago :slight_smile: This is really cool and I’ll settle for simulated fur.

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thetoucher shaders final effects always look so professional 8)

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@thetoucher , can you make a test example project? I’m just curious how to use it.

Really exiting!

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@mifth sure thing, here’s one @canis85 prepared earlier :slight_smile:



I couldn’t leave the fur blended poorly in my scene, nor resist to urge to make some tweaks :wink: …



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@thetoucher looking really good!

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just awesome, soon thetoucher will make Euclideon similar graphic :evil:

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wow, nice

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Very nice! What does it look like when the character is moving? Any chance of a vid?



It’s a shame the masking isn’t complete on the horns and vambraces as I think it would improve the effect a lot.