![]() ![]() ![]() c) Create new Description (Create the Fur) ![]() Make sure the object you want to grow hair on does not have a Vray Material applied. Important! There is a bug with the current version of Maya and Vray (I’m not sure where it is coming from). a) Click the Xgen icon in the XGen tab b) Select the Geometry (or Faces) you want to grow hair on Well, this is not meant to be a full on XGen tutorial, so I’ll only touch the basics here. No secret here, I’ll use my awesome modeling skills and create a Sphere. It is necessary to load XgenVray before we launch XGen, otherwise XGen won’t see Vray as a Renderer. Open Maya (with a new scene) and load the plugins. 1- Setting up XGen to see Vrayįirst we need to load the Plugins. However, we ran into a few issues following the documentation, which is why I’m writing this step-by-step Tutorial. ( Xgen General and Xgen Spline Primitives) Most of the content from this article is taken from the official VRay documentation. I’m writing this tutorial as a step-by-step manual for those who would also struggle to get a custom color on Xgen hair to render in Vray. Some sort of Bug prevented us to make any progress for a long time, and even after we discovered what was causing it the process wasn’t as straightforward as we thought. I recently had to help a student create Fur for her personal project, and I got surprised how few tutorials were present online for the Xgen/Vray Combo. Even though I usually like to post about Compositing, I’m doing a little exception this time. ![]()
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