OMG! fur plugin is AMAZING!

solo · 14 May 2010, 18:13

This is an addictive plugin.

xrok1 · 14 May 2010, 18:41

and with thea, you could use fur in combination with displacement to double the flexibility!

briggs · 14 May 2010, 18:50

With what you've done there Solo does SUp slow down massively? If it doesn't I can't wait to give it a try and make some full scale scenes I thought would only be capable using something like 3DS max!

Oh, and here's one of mine......

Grass through the grid:

d12dozr · 14 May 2010, 20:10

Thanks for the component, Pete, and for the tech support, Frederick.

Here is Pete's component Twilight-ready

bufalo grass png.skp

olishea · 14 May 2010, 20:42

briggs: if you put the grass on hidden layer it will not slow down sketchup. just turn the layer on before rendering...i assume you are using podium. i place all my heavy geometry on hidden layers, its so much better

nice one d12

Rico91 · 14 May 2010, 21:16

briggs · 15 May 2010, 00:28

@olishea said:

briggs: if you put the grass on hidden layer it will not slow down sketchup. just turn the layer on before rendering...i assume you are using podium. i place all my heavy geometry on hidden layers, its so much better

nice one d12

Cheers for the tip oli. I'd just seen your post about doing this earlier on, it works too. Not a chance my puny little laptop can take progressive renders with all that geometry now though Think I might move onto Maxwell soon, that should hopefully open up a few more doors for me! I've been toying with getting Twilight but I like the idea of having an outside "studio" program to work in.

I honestly think if Pete's technique is fully explored then it will enable SU to create some renders that are up there with the best in terms of scene composition and environment construction! Who needs 3ds?

mitsubishi_becloud · 15 May 2010, 04:33

Using the fur plugin for the first time, I used default settings as well as mixing them up a bit. This is the best I can come up with and it still looks like crap. Anybody got any suggestions as to why the grass is showing up blotchy over the selected area?

Gaieus · 15 May 2010, 05:18

Hi Bran,

"Tune up" the Density and the Max number settings (top two) considerably. The first is set to 200 pieces per 1 m2 (or about 9 square feet) which is obviously too low for a real, dense grass.

Be carefully however NOT to populate your scene with too many instances as they can (and definitely WILL) slow down SU considerably. Experiment with smaller areas first to see what results you get.

massimo · 15 May 2010, 06:20

Bran, you can also hit the "make fur" button many times on the same surface.

Fletch · 15 May 2010, 07:48

@frederik said:

However, if you're able to save the texture with a transparent background (I.e. as a .png file), it will automatically be made into an alpha-channel...

simply "fix" the buffalo grass component to contain the .png file with the alpha mask already inside it
voila... then everything is automatic in Twilight.

oops - thanks dozer, I see you "fixed" it for Twilight .

Frederik · 17 May 2010, 19:06

Like so many others, I'm having a blast with this new toy...

I've made some "Make Fur Components" based on some of the models from Solo's garden pack 1 , which I highly recommend...

Some of these components are based on parts of the models (I.e. the ivy is only 3 leaves that have been positioned a little different)...

This is SO COOL and have opened up for so many new possibilities...

boofredlay · 17 May 2010, 20:57

O dear Lord what have I done

michaliszissiou · 17 May 2010, 21:11

Yeah Boofredlay, what have you done?

TIG · 17 May 2010, 22:21

You'll go blind........

joppermann · 18 May 2010, 01:52

I know you are excited about the plug-in...but jeesh!

fymoro · 18 May 2010, 14:31

Wow really cool Jonathan, congrats... I think that the 4min to understand what the f...k is going on, Was the time SU send the information to Vray...

holmes1977 · 18 May 2010, 20:33

Arrrrrrrrrrrrr Im so busy at work and all I want to do is play with this pluggin.
This is an old scene I did ages ago. Looks alot better with FUR
Only PS was the really bad smoke.

Rendered in Vray. It took about 4min for Vray to figure out wat the F@#K was going on, then 2mins to render.

holmes1977 · 18 May 2010, 21:57

@fymoro said:

Wow really cool Jonathan, congrats... I think that the 4min to understand what the f...k is going on, Was the time SU send the information to Vray...

So true Fred. Sorry for the language under huge pressure at work. But no excuse for toilet talk.

kwistenbiebel · 19 May 2010, 11:01

I simply love that last image . It puts a smile on my face.
The fur plugin is great.
It is still unbelievable that google didn't make a 64 bit version of sketchup, so we can export higher poly models like these with ease to our render apps.(32 bit limits the RAM usage).
It would make life so much easier (fur, trees, etc...)