Comments on: Dynamic Hair / Hair Dynamics

By: Szabolcs Matefy

Szabolcs Matefy — Sun, 15 May 2005 08:33:31 +0000

Hi Helge,

And when this little wonder will be available to the public? I`m really suffering with styling long hair…

By: Helge Mathee

Helge Mathee — Tue, 10 May 2005 19:12:01 +0000

Raymond: Yes… that’’s correct. You can use the dynamics on other things than hair. Since it’’s a hair dynamics engine though, it will not be that satisfying…. ;-)

Szablocs: Thanks. You can use the dynamics to just apply the clumping and then freeze the dynamics out! Using this system you have control over avoidance/attraction within a falloff range. This way you can control interhaircollision / clumping.

By: Szabolcs Matefy

Szabolcs Matefy — Mon, 09 May 2005 12:46:19 +0000

Hi Helge,

The teaser video was really impressive. You solved the clumping with dynamic? How does that would work on a static model (i mean a single frame render for print work etc.)

Do you need some beta testing? :)

Best regards,

Szabolcs Matefy

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sun, 08 May 2005 19:28:53 +0000

Helge, Does:

“You will need hair to move it, sorry.”

Mean it won”t work at all with Foundation? Since the dynamics seems to work on curves,
and it seems to be a good way to do whips, chains, treebraches, etc, would it at least WORK in
Foundation, even if we couldn”t make it render like hair?

Thank you for all your hard work for us geekizoids!

Cheers…

By: Helge Mathee

Helge Mathee — Sat, 07 May 2005 07:35:08 +0000

This is a hair dynamics solution, not a hair replacement. You will need hair to move it, sorry.
;-)

By: Mike Harrison

Mike Harrison — Sat, 07 May 2005 02:44:46 +0000

This looks awesome. Add me to the list of people who would buy your plugin if it worked with Foundation. You”d be saving a lot of people a lot of money, since most of us non-pros can”t afford XSI Advanced. Although I bet Softimage would be upset, though, since Hair is one of the main value-added features in Advanced.

By: schyzomaniac

schyzomaniac — Sat, 07 May 2005 00:27:13 +0000

Hi Helge,
those videos look really awsome. If you”re going to release your hair solution to the public as a commercial product, will it run with the fundamental version of XSI? That would be an interesting alternative to get hair in Fundamental.

All the best,
daniel | schyzomaniac

By: Helge Mathee

Helge Mathee — Fri, 06 May 2005 18:29:14 +0000

Vince:

Thanks.

The dynamics engine works totally seperately from XSI’’s. The speed is realtime in most cases, the collision detection slows it down uite a bit though. I will possible sell / release it to the public, but I need to do some more testing.

By: Kjello

Kjello — Fri, 06 May 2005 12:55:07 +0000

Looks very impressive. Now we just need to see it expanded to be a full hair plug-in for Foundation :-D

By: buhrmi

buhrmi — Fri, 06 May 2005 09:04:16 +0000

WOW