In this multi-part, video tutorial about Blender’s Hair Particles System, we will learn some very useful options to use when trying to create cool or convincing hair effects. We will also add colour to the hair, light the scene, add a few compositing nodes, and finally set the particle system as a softbody so we can animate it.
This tutorial is Day 2 in a series – Go to Day 1
We’ll start this second day by shading our hair, then we’ll add a simple lighting rig and a background image. Next we’ll move on to adding a few compositing nodes, and finally, we’ll activate soft body physics for our particle system and add a wind field to interact with the hair.
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YAAAAAAAHOOOO!! I WAS WATING FOR IT!!
Gracias Juan Pablo! :)
The sky texture can be found (+ a few more) here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=24038
Also, I’ve just noticed that I’ve used the wrong video overlay while showing the bad results of weight painting and physics settings. I’m sorry about that :(
FINALLY!!!
Awesome Tutorial!
Please keep on doing these great Blender tutorials!!
Thanks Nyls!
That’s very nice to read :) I’ll try to keep the tutorials coming.
simply great toturial .. thanks alot Roberto
congrats, it’s a great tutorial.
But i need more blender tutorial for beginner and intermediate modeling. :D
wow this is a great tutorial i learned alot
next please do an in depht hair and fur tutorial for 3d max
Incredible…………too large size video but the most helpful online.
tnx
Fantastic tutorial. Thanx.
really all your tutorials is very nice .if you can help in the 3d screen n blender i have a lot of problems with it.thanx for your job
Cheers Mate, Great tutorial.
Quick question, I noticed that you use shadow buffers rather than ray traced shadows. Is there a reason for that?
NICE!!!!THANKS!!!!Just keep on going with tutorials!!!!
Great tutorial, Thankx !
This is an awesome tutorial, a real life saver to my blender video ^^ thanks
Stupendous Tutorial!! Thank you !!
Amazing :) You are a real master for me :) I wish I could create something similar… someday :)
This 2.49b or 2.5?and can u make a tut on how to rig a character? i know nothing about armatures last time i tried everything ended twisted up literally,i want to make it able to move
Good job man. I strongly support open source programs like Blender and Make Human (you can find it at google, you can make a human.obj at zero time with just move some bars). And even more I strongly support tutorials. The things that we know we must pass them to other peoples!
This tutorial is fantastic although you fail to mention some things or I just missed them.
#1 Ive followed the tutorial exactly and yet Ive never been able to make Buffer Shadows render particle shadows. Raytrace shadows work on particles but Ive never seen buffer shadows work on hair particles. What did you do to the particles to make the shadows work on them?
Hi!
Great tut! I cant belive how awsome it was!!!! You did a great job and I learnd so much! The only problem I have is how to export this in a video. I dont know how to do that at the end…. :(
Ur a master.
:)