Re: Hair pre-processing

["Morten Bartholdy" <xsi(at)colorshopvfx.dk>]

Doesn't really matter if it is swedish beer ;)

- Morten



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mathieu Leclaire" <mleclair(at)hybride.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: Hair pre-processing


> hum... how much beer are we actually talking about here? ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
> Of Stefan Andersson
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:12 AM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Hair pre-processing
>
>
> If I give you a lot of beers, will you come to sweden and make that
> tool for us? :)
>
> /stefan
>
>
> On 9/29/06, Mathieu Leclaire <mleclair(at)hybride.com> wrote:
> > Hum... so how do you plan on bribing the programmer... oh wait, that's
> me...
> > so how exactly are you gonna try and bribe me? I'm kinda curious to see
> how
> > your gonna do it. ;-)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf 
> > Of
> > Michael Bentitou
> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:08 AM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: RE: Hair pre-processing
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Merci Guillaume – et Guy! I guess I missed the post a few weeks back 
> > then.
> > I'll try to bribe our programmer now ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > -=mb.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of
> > guillaume laforge
> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:09 AM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: Hair pre-processing
> >
> >
> >
> > 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..
> > --
> > 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...
> >
> > --
> > 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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