It's great for imitating organic structures and things like stone paths and foam surfaces when you do this and play with the taper.Īlso I have found that the origin surface shape makes for a lot of variation - so for example try a flat disc, a torus, a cube. Some of the most interesting variables to play with are the distribution - try setting it to something like 0.002 or even lower lower and see what happens.Īlso try setting the base size to a large number like 15 or more and the base length like about 20 and watch the cells interact. If you initially set the base length of fur very long it makes the minor changes to the variables much more obvious and easier to test out.

There is a lot of fun to be had playing with this that will suck up time like a blackhole. Hope this helps and you get some fur happening. Once you have applied the fur you can edit the settings for individual objects without having to reapply it via the fur tool by right clicking on the object and editing the fur attributes directly in the object settings. You can then also alter the fur to get extensive other options in its formation and clustering.Īnd if you try the variations for distribution you can alter the density etc. This is most evident at the point where the fur is attached to the object. You can also alter the Gravity variation which defines how much each hair is randomly affected by the gravity and direction pulls. The base gravity is the overall strength or pull and that can also be set to be either positive or negative or 0 where there is no pull at all and the fur just points in random directions out from the object based on collision between the individual fur objects.

So you can combine the vectors to create a 3D direction - say. if you set it to -1 Y then setting the base gravity to a negative number will kind of override it in part and point it in the opposite direction. If in doubt just set it to -1 or 1 as you can alter the effects with the negative and positive gravity as well to get the same effect of movement as setting it to plus/minus. The vector defines the direction in increments between 0 to 1 or minus 1. If you cant see any fur at base gravity 0 then it's probably one of the other settings that is going wrongīasically the gravity has to be set above 0 or below 0 to make the fur effect work otherwise it basically just has no gravity acting on it. Keep changing the length higher or lower till you can see a significant amount of fur length sticking out in all directions. just not too big or too small.Īdd a highly visible texture like a VRay green grass ground material to it.Īdd the fur by selecting the fur tool and then apply it to the sphere.ĭo a test render and it should look something like this that might help get it started.Ĭreate a sphere of about 2m diameter.

Vray fur