From a standpoint of animating characters, one major hole I see in Houdini's toolset is fur and hair. I've heard it mentioned that you can do fur, but I've never seen any examples. And I have heard nothing concerning long hair.

Keep in mind that I know that fur is certainly possible (see “The Wild”), but my studio has no TDs that can write their own shaders and tools, so we have to rely on off-the-shelf options.

I don't believe Shave and a Haircut works for Houdini, so are there any available hair solutions out there? And, more importantly, can a “stoopid” artist use the tools without having to be a TD?

All in all, houdini is looking amazing. Keep up the good work!

There might still be an old tutorial at oddforce about fur and hair or at least an example. It reall is creative on how it is done and you can control the length of the hair, as well as animate it.

All the components for fur and long hair are there without writing anything, but there is currently no “auto hair” tool, and unfortunately, no training either. However, I'm sure that will be addressed!

For Fur, check out the Examples on the Fur SOP for starters. There is a Mantra example on rendering fur in there somewhere too.

For long hair, check out the Wire Solver examples in DOPs. You basically then use those as guide hairs into the Fur system.

For grooming, the Paint Normals is a good place to start, as well as the Shaved example in the Fur SOP.

Cheers,

Peter B

We are working on a comprehensive set of furring tutorials as we speak. Please stay tuned. (You won't have to wait long.)

Sweeeet!!!
I want those tutorials now!!!!

That's some real good news cb!!

cb
We are working on a comprehensive set of furring tutorials as we speak. Please stay tuned. (You won't have to wait long.)

Thank god.


I cant wait now.

-andy

phrenzy84

cb
We are working on a comprehensive set of furring tutorials as we speak. Please stay tuned. (You won't have to wait long.)

Thank god.


I cant wait now.

-andy

ditto

cb
We are working on a comprehensive set of furring tutorials as we speak. Please stay tuned. (You won't have to wait long.)

Please let there be a section on hair styling, like creating kink and frizz setting to make an Afro or long and short wavy hair.

Also a method on how to make a beard and eyebrows with color settings.

If you did that I’d be all over Houdini like a cheap suit!

Thank you,

cb
We are working on a comprehensive set of furring tutorials as we speak. Please stay tuned. (You won't have to wait long.)

any fluid tutorials?

That is AWESOME!!!! Been waiting for some tutorial on fur for a long time.

any word on the tutorials?

Just wondering when they will be released.

Cant wait.(oh already said that )

-andy

sooooooon 8)

If you do a search for ‘fur’ in the docs, you'll find about 4 or 5 fur examples, including:

Fur Density Map
FurTextureMap <- this one uses a pic from my vacation in Japan
FurBall

We are putting the final touches on the fur tutorials. We did not kid when we said “soon”. :-)

awesome, also just like to say that i really like SESI put their tutorials together.

The autorig walkthrough and even the written ones are really well done and not over produced.

Thank for the update. Cant wait to test it out on a few of my characters.


-andy