Re: Hair pre-processing

["guillaume laforge" <guillaume.laforge.3d(at)gmail.com>]

>So if think the answer is positive only if someone in your studio know those things and is available...
you can replace the first "if" by "I" if you want :-p...

On 9/29/06, guillaume laforge <guillaume.laforge.3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:

I ask for something similar some weeks ago. Here is Guy Rabiller answer :

Afaik you'll have to write your own shader for this.
Then  a geometry shader to import back the hairs.
The added benefit is that you can finely control how they are imported,
you can adjust the width along the strand with a curve for instance, the
interpolation, etc..
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guy rabiller | 3d technical director (at) LaMaison


So if think the answer is positive only if someone in your studio know those things and is available...

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Guillaume Laforge
freelance TD | cg Artist
my blog ! http://vol2blog.blogspot.com/

On 9/29/06, Michael Bentitou <michaelb(at)hybride.com> wrote:

Is there any way to cache the 'hair pre-processing' and 'hair generation boxes' when previewing/rendering ?

 

I have 15 hair objects with a fair amount on each of them and they're all static – no dynamics. It takes a pretty long time doing the pre-process. I have 4 passes in the scene so logically I should be able to process the scene once so the other passes can read from the cache instead of re-reprocessing everything.

 

Is there any way to do this ?

 

-=mb.

 

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Guillaume Laforge
freelance TD | cg Artist
my blog ! http://vol2blog.blogspot.com/