HAIR with transp texture.

[tibicen]

Hi all, how would you do hair in blender-indigo? Quite realistic?

I was thinking about manu subsurfed planes ( something like nurbus surface) with hair texture, prepared like grass in grass tutorial, any ideas how to do this texture, because i have done only one god texture, i'm noob in this.

Maybe i shoud drawn it on my own?

[Vanessa07]

I don't think it's the best way.. too difficult

Maybe I should use blender 2.46 RC with the hair tool

http://blenderclan.tuxfamily.org/html/m ... 59&forum=7

Here you can find video presenting this new tool. For the mat, I should use a blended from diffuse or phong to null, using a blend map. I don't know how these particuls works exactly, don't know if it works with indigo

[tibicen]

But particles, does't work with Indigo, right?

[Vanessa07]

Yes but you can convert particul in mesh, with "alt c", don't realy know if it works, I just supposed it will

Some members created hairs, search forum

[Kram1032]

the problem with that conversion is, that you only get vertices or edges, no faces. you'll need to take the whole mesh and extrude it a bit, so that you get volume-hair...

[tibicen]

I gets only verticles, no edges...

[Kram1032]

oh well......
then, you have to do even more work...

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# Converts particles into a mesh with edges for strands
from Blender import Scene, Mathutils, Effect, Mesh, Object
scn= Scene.GetCurrent()
ob= scn.getActiveObject()
me= Mesh.New()
     
effects= Effect.Get()
for eff in effects:
    for p in eff.getParticlesLoc():
        # p is either a vector or a list of vectors. me.verts.extend() will deal with either
        print p
        me.verts.extend(p)
     
        if type(p)==list: # Are we a strand or a pair, then add edges.
            if len(p)>1:
                edges= [(i, i+1) for i in range(len(me.verts)-len(p), len(me.verts)-1)]
                me.edges.extend( edges )
     
print len(me.verts)
ob= Object.New('Mesh')
ob.link(me)
scn.link(ob)

try this python script... it should convert particle-hair to edges....
though, I've no idea, whether it works with the new particle system...