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Dear all
Please advise
How to create a furry carpet
Thanks !!!

A carpet that furry as in the reference cannot be done with displacement, i would not do it with that. Instead you need some sort of hair/fur solution with the ability to convert hair to polygons so Maxwell can render them.

/ Max

I would use instances/proxys.

Thanks to all replays
i will be happy if you can explain in more details your solutions because i am not so expert in Maxwell

Thanks again

It depends a lot on the modeler you are using. Instances are basically copies of an object that don't load on memory but show on render, so you can render thousands of objects while you are exporting only one to Maxwell allowing you to use huge amounts of geometry. In this case you can model one "hair" of your carpet and replicate it all over the base of the carpet using instances with the tools allowed by your modelling app.

Hair/fur solutions are apps specifically design to model hair (or grass or anything hairy) but very often they are too dependent on the render engine and don't make the hair as instances so you end up with a very hi-poly geometry. If that's a problem I wouldn't use them.

As Fernando says, it's really a question about your modeling programs hair/fur capabilities more than a Maxwell question. I'd suggest reposting your question in the appropriate modeling forum.

-Brodie

if Maxwell supported Vector displacment like mudbox 2011 does this would be a breeze to setup.. now rendering time would still be intensive at least at vox stage


OHH and there is a vector displacment for Mental Ray Via maya/ max/ softimage plugin:

http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk ... ce-shader/

If you are not using software with a fur particle system, I suggest trying Blender. Blender is an awesome program for doing such things. You can export the geometry as an obj or lwo. It actually works very well. And there are many tutorials out there. best of all, it is free. Blender has been playing a big roll in doing things like grass, fur, fluid sim and cloth type sims for my projects.