[dolue]

I'm struggling with making a realistic hair material with Maxwell Render.
when i render it, always like a sea weed or something.
I really wanna make hair with shave and a hiarcut(plugin).

somebody helps me?

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[Mihai]

Try a plastic like material, with anisotropy set to max.

Or even try a 3 bsdf material. Two of them like a normal plastic mat, and a third bsdf, with roughness set at about 20-30 to also get some secondary wider and rougher reflections. Weight each layer according to the look you want.

[dolue]

Thanks Mihai
but I tried to render in the way to set up the material below.

mannequin hair:
i made a studio and put the mannequin and the one emmiter in it.
when I rendered, rendered hair is like solid and sea weed.


http://toshiki.moriya.googlepages.com/m ... ir%26face

[Tim Ellis]

Here are my tests and the hair models I used. You can get all of them for Poser as .objs freely from the web.

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... light=aiko

I can upload the final hair material, if you would find it useful. You then can add your own maps to. Not able to redistrubute the hair maps.

Tim.

[dolue]

Tim, thank you for a nice material and experiments
but when I use it in a completely closed space like a studio, and put a single light in front of the mannequin without no physical light, there is a seaweed hair phenomena again.

I thought that the cause of it is, material so i tried to adjust many times but i didn't get it.

How can I overcome this problem?

Thank you in advance.

[Tim Ellis]

Tim, thank you for a nice material and experiments
but when I use it in a completely closed space like a studio, and put a single light in front of the mannequin without no physical light, there is a seaweed hair phenomena again.

I thought that the cause of it is, material so i tried to adjust many times but i didn't get it.

How can I overcome this problem?

Thank you in advance.

Have you tried tweaking the clip maps? Perhaps the clip map area is not 100% white & 100% black. Especially the edges of the hair on the colour map.

I find a really easy way to double check the clip map, is to make a new one from the colour map.
Load the colour map into Photoshop, select all and >Image>Adjustments>Threshold. This will give you an exact black and white version, with tweaks on the slider, which you can save as the new clipmap.

Can you post a render if this is not the case?

Tim.

[jekmaxwell]

My test....

http://www.maxwellrender.it/index.php?o ... pic=3785.0

[patrikpanda]

My test....

nice......how?please....

[KurtS]

very nice, jekmaxwell!
I would like to see the texture map used!

[jekmaxwell]

Diffuse: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/t ... edHair.jpg
Clipmap: http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetai ... &spmeta=ab

[simmsimaging]

Hi Tim - I would love to have a look at your hair material - is it on the mxm gallery?

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