Cycles: Hair is Coming!

Bart · December 17, 2012

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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Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

7 responses

jordi957

17 December 2012 at 16:12

This is awesome. Been waiting for this for a while!
Blend on everyone.

ONiRiXEL

17 December 2012 at 16:30

kudos !

AbelvanderDrift

17 December 2012 at 16:57

Wahoo!

Brigadewing

17 December 2012 at 19:18

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.