I would love to get a properly working modern har/fur system in Softimage. I would want it to be ICE based for the sake of speed and integration, which I guess might work nicely with their node based approach. I have not tried Kristinka nor Melena, but as you mention, grooming leaves a lot to be desired plus the initial learning curve is a bit steep as you need to know your way around ICE to make it work at all.
I like the ease of use of the existing (old) hair in Soft, but it lacks tools and is too limited as is, so I would love to see something like Yeti for Softimage. Morten Bartholdy VFX Supervisor gimmick vfx.com Den 19. april 2013 kl. 11:33 skrev Sebastien Sterling <[email protected]>: > 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/ <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 :) >
