BroadStu is working on a strand rendering for Cycles…
BroadStu writes:
Hi all! I have recently been working on a patch for strand rendering in cycles. It’s still very early and is currently on the tracker to be reviewed by Blender’s developers. It can be found here.
There are also a few more implementation details there. Currently, there are plenty of missing features and I wouldn’t recommend heavy usage now. It’s currently quite memory hungry. This thread is primarily for suggestions, debugging and tests.
It’s not had a detailed review yet but if anyone wants to support me or donate to this project then just see my profile or get in touch.
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This is awesome. Been waiting for this for a while!
Blend on everyone.
kudos !
Wahoo!
Phew, at long last. Hope you can tweak it out enough to surpass BI’s. BI’s needed of way too many lamps and color ramps everywhere to make it enough realistic. I trust Cycles will be able to handle some of those tweaks automatically.
That’s a great news! I was hoping some OSL hair and SSS scripts!
isn’t Window version? how to use on window 7?
The new hair patch is amazing. Even Suzanne is exited:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOQv8YRb6M