Hello List. I just wanted to perform a quick survey of what solutions people are using for hair/fur/feathers in softimage these days.
recently a new tool has become available on the market, its a production ready all in one hair/feather solution. it's called Yeti http://peregrinelabs.com/yeti/ The hair module in softimage doesn't seem to have aged well, and i know what a lot of you are thinking, ice already gives us a multitude of ways to develop hair solutions... However, there doesn't seem to be any universal go to hair solution for softimage. this can be a problem for numerous reasons. and as good as ice is, it's short comings can't be ignored (ex: styling tools?) I wrote an email to Peregrine asking if there where any plans for a port to XSI, they responded as follows: Hi Sebastien, Thank you for the great feedback - we have investigated Yeti integration for rendering preview which may be available in a later version but at this time we're not planning an XSI version of the editing tools. Adding in support for a whole new 3D application is a large task and we haven't had enough demand for an XSI version at this stage. If at some point that changes and it looks like a studio may commit to a large number of licenses we could afford to do this. So yes, i guess I'm asking who would like Yeti to come to softimage, and if Not, why? good day :)
