ZBrush 4's new FiberMesh tools -> exportable hair

[Marc-Andre Carbonneau]

Hey!

Just wanted to give a heads up on a new tool from Pixologic called FiberMesh, basically add hair grooming possibility to your sculpting.

The coolest part? It’s now exportable to MAX. I’m sure some brain on here can make the same for Softimage?

 

Here’s a video of FiberMesh:

http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/features/zbrush4r2b/overview/

 

 

And here’s the MAX FiberMesh splines exporter:

http://www.mariussilaghi.com/fibermeshsplines.htm

 

 

 

[Florian Eberle]

ha, charging twenty bucks, those little ....

if you don't need curves but can live with strands - try this one.

just import you fiber mesh, get an empty pointcloud and hook up the compound.
you'll have to specify the sides and segments of the original fiber mesh.

i guess it would need some more love to prepare the strands for a nice simulation, but the base is there.

have fun

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Flo Eberle
Lead Modeling Artist/
Technical Director

[Adrian Lopez]

Video Link seems to need a password....

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Adrian Lopez

CEO.Producer.Director

Liquid Light Digital

www.liquidlightdigital.com

[Demian Kurejwowski]

i just did this example 2 weeks ago.

i don't know python very well but i was able to get it in Houdini.

from the connected geometry,  (separating each cone of hair, because that's the shape we get from z brush)

for each connected geometry

    grab every X of point every Y points.

    delete everything else.

    create curve from points.

Merge results. (merge all the curves)

and can get even better.  in the script make select the first point and assign it to a cluster.  so when simulate you can use that cluster as Root with out dynamics so it follows the animation.

now the tricky part is doing it on Python. LOL....

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De: Adrian Lopez <vfx...@gmail.com>
Para: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Enviado: Viernes, 27 de enero, 2012 15:58:32
Asunto: Re: ZBrush 4's new FiberMesh tools -> exportable hair

[Florian Eberle]

had a little time to bring this one into shape.
if you're interested you can find an addon (or the bare compounds) with a little explanation here:
http://florianeberle.com/2012/02/21/fibermesh-to-strands/

flo

[Juhani Karlsson]

Great job. Makes hair styling fun! : )

2012/2/22 Florian Eberle <f...@pixable.de>