Oct 21, 2017 vray and xgen fur with different colored hair bob mcafee. You can customize your xgen hair shader network by creating custom shader parameters and adding file textures and ramps textures. I am trying to use the existing splines from hair and fur modifier in xgen so i dont have to regroom the model. Interestingly, i created two spheres, one with a vray material on it and one with a mental ray material mia, and only the mental ray material shows up in the viewport 2. Mayas xgen offers a method for instancing pretty much anything.
Rendering textured xgen fur with vray in maya 2016 erwan. The gnomon workshop has released creating a female hairstyle for production with maya xgen, a detailed guide to using mayas powerful hair and fur toolset recorded by sony pictures imagworks bruno tornisielo the tutorial provides an indepth look at production techniques for creating hair for. Creating fur and short hair maya with xgen tutorial. This is a roundup of resources about creating hair and fur with maya. Check that vray is listed in the output settings and the xgenvray. When painting any map in xgen, make sure to assign the standard lambert1 material. It renders fine with mental ray but cant seem to find much information on a way to be able to render it in vray as it just turns out grey. Render natural, artificial and imagebased lighting with a wide range of light types. Our platform friendly provide vray materials resources for download and sharing to everyone who are need find some vray materials plugin for 3d visualaltion or mulitmedia needed. A vray hair material can be used for shading maya hair by connecting it as a hair shader in the vray extra attributes applied to the hairsystemshape node. Discussion in pc apllications started by rahul singh, apr 21, 2020. Basics of xgen, how to create hair, fur, grass etc. Hi everyone, i just encountered a problem with xgen.
Here is a simple metal mesh grill vray material available to download for free. Volumes render optimized volumetric effects and import openvdb files from realflow and houdini. Make sure vray is visible to xgen and set it as renderer. The article details how to create custom mental ray shaders for rendering xgen hair in mental ray for maya. First tutorial of the series, grooming a character from start to finish using xgen and redshift to render.
With custom shader parameters and xgen shading nodes, you can add any standard maya material to shade hair grooms or card and sphere primitives. Vray and xgen fur with different colored hair youtube. Using photoshop or uv textures with maya xgen lesterbanks. Unlike xgen hair there are no specifiedhardcoded names for such parameters colors and floats with any name can be used with vray user color and vray user scalar and can be plugged to anything. There is some great information here on how to assign a shader, and how temple helper nodes that can alter the appearance of the xgen hair. In contrast to maya hair, the fur module makes no attempt to prevent hair to hair. You can save a texture or image file to a ptex map, and then use the map to assign the texture or image to a description.
This is done by navigating to the hairsystemshape tab in the attribute editor, and selecting attributes vray hair shader. When i decided to go back to the previous version it started working again. The new interactive groomable splines available in maya 2017 are supported in vray 3. Xgen arbitrary primitive generator is the system used for hair in both disneys zootopia and pixars toy story 3 xgen lets you create and groom hair, fur, feathers, grass, foliage, trees, and rocks. Make sure the object you want to grow hair on does not have a vray material applied. Xgen guides in order to style the hair the way we want, we need to create some guides across the surface. I am having major issues trying to render out xgen with vray. Redshift does a great job rendering hair through its hair shader. See more ideas about maya, zbrush and modeling tips. I have read and excercised the following tutorials, and. Plane with xgen grass splines cube with a ramp has been placed under the plane.
Its very detailed and therefore will take some time to render, but it will give a realistic feel to your grass fields. The popular bercon noise texture is now available in vray for maya. I have read and excercised the following tutorials, and chaos doc. In the hypershade under the materials tab, locate the xgen hair shader assigned to the description you want to render. For this purpose we use this little doll with a simple xgen hair cut. First he goes through creating the xgen description, then the shader and finally goes over the shader attributes. If vray is not in the output settings as shown above, try restarting maya with xgenvray. Vray has options for the tessellation of xgen splines.
Best hair plugin for maya xgen, ornatrix, nhair or yeti after using fibermesh on zbrush, i realize that i cannot use it to create braided, ponytail hair and various other hairstyles. Saved grooms can be loaded and rendered with vray using xgen delta files. This feature is only available when the mental ray mayatomr. One workaround is to assign another shader to the description then hook up the shader you want in the renders to the surface shader slot in the shading group node, then you will see get a vp shader and a. Select the hair system in the outliner and add the vray hair shader attributes. Best hair plugin for maya xgen, ornatrix, nhair or yeti. Can be used for car grills or items such as mobile phones or speakers.
To download the scene created with these steps, please click the button below. This silk material can easily be adjusted to your needs by simply changing the diffuse color or the reflection strength and glossy value. Creating fur and short hair maya with xgen tutorial fur simulation designed for large area coverage of short hairs and hair like materials. To download the files used in this tutorial, please click on the button below. The user can export groups of objects and lights to redshift proxy files which can be easily referenced by other scenes. Hair creation with xgen 3dtotal learn create share. Blondie curly hair in vray render 3d model, available in max, obj, fbx, abc, ready for 3d animation and other 3d projects. Watch as small robot studio gives a quick overview of the process of applying xgen fur descriptions to a mesh and rendering with redshift. How to create realistic grass in maya using vray tutorial. Shading and rendering xgen primitives maya 2016 autodesk. This shader mimics the appearance of hair by using a classical phong model with 2 specular lobes. Ideally, i would like to use the vray hair material 3 and a custom ptex map to drive xgen.
These guides will tell the hair what direction he needs to follow. I did some research online and found various hair plugins like xgen, ornatrix, nhair and yeti there should be more but thats all i. Render realistic hair with support for maya hair and fur, xgen, ornatrix, shave and a haircut, and yeti. Here we will get rid of the tori archive and make each cookie monster body with a unique random color add a vray user color map.
It can be used to simulate short furlike objects, such as grass, carpet, etc. Even though maya xgen runs on ptex, that doesnt mean that you cant use. Florian croquets new hair tool for maya simplifies the xgen realtime workflow. Tutorial steps apply vrayhair3mtl to hair system 1. Its integration into vray now allows us to beautifully render 100s of thousands of hairs quickly and efficiently right inside our more comprehensive scene files, with full respect to vray s gi lighting features, motion blur, and dof. Guide to rendering with xgen and arnold area by autodesk. Add free material to cart make sure you enter a valid email address during checkout, as download instructions will be sent to you through email. That makes it great for a lot of things, including hair and fur. I recently had to help a student create fur for her personal project, and i got surprised how few tutorials were present online for the xgenvray combo. Xgen hair showing in the render but not showing in the viewport im not sure the shader you are using is supported in the vp directly. Xgen to 3ds max i dont know max at all really, but the only way i can think off would be to export a groom as curves ro convert to geometry.
If you create a lot of realtime hair and fur using hair cards, there is a new tool that can help. Xgen is tightly integrated with mental ray and renderman, and ships with its own shading and material nodes for these renderers. Open the hypershade window rendering editors hypershade. Autodesk maya is an ultimate package to perform various jobs such as modeling, texturing, animation, dynamics, particle fx etc. Vray and xgen fur with different colored hair bob mcafee. Artstation realtime hair study, iris yurtsev see more. Firstly, i did a character with vray material and vray displacement map. Dec 26, 2016 to start visualising, set the hairs per clump to 50 to see the hair in your viewport and play with the settings. After a brief snag, i discovered that you have to have xgen and all the vray plugin components set to autoload in mayas plugin preferences to get everything to work right. Metal mesh grill vray material free download 3ds max. Coiffure is a new realtime hair tool for xgen in maya. Chaos group vray next for maya rental options toolfarm. Hair textures were made using xgen and rendered with arnold.
This lesson will take you through using the vray hairmtl on hair in a. Opening scenes by doubleclicking on the file will not ensure that vray is registered in the. While vray will render perfectly using mayas own standard materials, these vray specific materials offer a higher level of illumination and surface. Automatically remove noise and cut render times by 50% letting you to work more efficiently and create your projects faster. See part iii a in the shot animation section for details. Just switched to maya 2017 so that i could get my hands on the new xgen groomable hair, but for the life of me i cant figure out how to make vray render the darn thing. Xgen ships with readymade mental ray and renderman material and shading nodes, but you can use its utility nodes to render your setup with other renderers. Rendering xgen generated fur with vray using texture maps basically im trying to generate the texture of my fur using with a px texture as whats shown in this video. Note this feature is only available when the mental ray mayatomr. Artstation realistic vray grape mat details, farid ghanbari how to create realistic grape mat in vray bunch of grapes. Apply default arnold xgen hair shader to the current description. Rendering xgen generated fur with vray using texture maps.
Rendering textured xgen fur with vray in maya 2016 even though i usually like to post about compositing, im doing a little exception this time. Creating grass with splines tutorials area by autodesk. See the xgen prerequisites in the vray docs for more on this. Faster and more memory efficient edge and vertex creases with vray subdivision. Rendering hair and fur with xgen and redshift lesterbanks. Xgen hair showing in the render but not showing in the. Xgen is a geometry instancer that lets you populate the surface of polygon meshes with an arbitrary number of primitives either randomly or uniformly placed. You should be able to make a variety of hair or fur with this method. Anyway to get the splines into maya, i converted them into curves in 3ds max and then imported them into maya so i can use them in xgen.
Proxies allow for powerful shader, matte and visibility flag overrides as often required in production. Create a female hairstyle for production with mayas xgen. Renderman 21 xgen fur tutorial xgen, fur, modeling tips. Nov 08, 2014 the inside mental ray blog posts a look at rendering maya xgen hair through mental ray. Aug 21, 2015 posted on august 21, 2015 by vray admin in tutorials heres a great tutorial detailing how to create realistic looking grass in maya using vray. If i change the renderer to maya hardware i get the red color.
Make sure to give enough space between each guide that you place on the surface. This is a pretty deep article that talks about using xgen to create hair and some very important details on grooming. You will learn how to achieve a great result using only groomable splines and modifiers. The hair tessellation mode and the slider below it can be used to tweak the tessellation and thus improve rendering speed, memory footprint and quality. Oct 20, 2017 rendering hair and fur with xgen and redshift lesterbanks. Redshift fur rendering in maya with xgen need help. This grass material is created using only procedural textures and vray fur. It can simulate the complex and anisotropic reflections that are typically found in real hair and fur. Rendering textured xgen fur with vray in maya 2016 erwan leroy. By default, maya assigns the hairphysicalshader material to interactive grooming splines and default spline primitives. Here is a screen shot from maya and the render from mental ray. Florian croquets new tool for maya called coiffure tackles the problem headon. Min pixel width arnolds minimum pixel width for curves.
Xgen lets you procedurally create and style hair, fur and feathers for characters. The final scene has a total of 3 billion visible triangles and it will render using only 1. This 30 day evaluation grants you full access to vray and all of its tools. Mode curve primitives can be rendered as ribbon or thick. Set color values of the xgen hair shader maya 2018. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. When i render, i only get the xgen fur on a lambert, and no color information. Play around with mapping sizes and the vray fur parameters to get the desired grass look. Ptex is an open source texture system developed by disney, which does away with uv assignments. Were focusing on xgen but there are resources here for working with vray next for maya and corona renderer in maya. Redshift supports multistep transformation blur and 2step deformation blur. But, i found the fur that i created by xgen groomable spines cannot render in vray. Xgen not rendering in vray trouble shoot oh no that wasnt the thing, i never exported anything it was just the vray update. Recorded by arvid schneider, this tutorial is easy to follow and shows you in detail how to utilise chaos groupss vray render plugin and its vray fur within maya to create and animate realistic.
Color for the diffuse component of the phong illumination model. Blondie curly hair in vray render 3d model cgtrader. Its a great tool for set dressing and is a serious contender to peregrine labs yeti, especially because you dont have to be a rocket scientist. Shading and rendering xgen primitives maya 2018 autodesk. Category for tyflow setups until then, you can upload tyflow or phoenixfd setups in the special effects. Create an ai sky render settingsenvironmentcreate sky shader and render the scene. Download now from our site for free and without logging in.