Sorry. Should have included the image of course.....

Thomas

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And this is a version with an image_map and corresponding transparency map.

I edited a couple of hair maps from Kozaburo (in Poser 6) and applied them 
to the figure in Poseray. Cylindrical uv_mapping around y.

I believe this looks already pretty convincing, xcept for the beard, but 
that needs a higher number of hairs to obtain the same effect.


Thomas

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> And this is a version with an image_map and corresponding transparency map.
>
> I edited a couple of hair maps from Kozaburo (in Poser 6) and applied them
> to the figure in Poseray. Cylindrical uv_mapping around y.
>
> I believe this looks already pretty convincing, xcept for the beard, but
> that needs a higher number of hairs to obtain the same effect.
>
>
> Thomas

It makes me want to go and play with ribbons now. :) I bet you could get it
even better by transitioning the ends to transparent. Do all the ribbons
use the same UV mapping?

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Janet wrote:
> "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
>> And this is a version with an image_map and corresponding transparency map.
>>
>> I edited a couple of hair maps from Kozaburo (in Poser 6) and applied them
>> to the figure in Poseray. Cylindrical uv_mapping around y.
>>
>> I believe this looks already pretty convincing, xcept for the beard, but
>> that needs a higher number of hairs to obtain the same effect.
>>
>>
>> Thomas
> 
> It makes me want to go and play with ribbons now. :) I bet you could get it
> even better by transitioning the ends to transparent. Do all the ribbons
> use the same UV mapping?
> 
> 
> 
The UV mapping is the same for all. U is along the ribbon and V is across.

FlyerX

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"FlyerX" <fly### [at] yahoocom> schreef in bericht 
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> Janet wrote:
>>
>> It makes me want to go and play with ribbons now. :) I bet you could get 
>> it
>> even better by transitioning the ends to transparent. Do all the ribbons
>> use the same UV mapping?
>>
>>
>>
> The UV mapping is the same for all. U is along the ribbon and V is across.
>
> FlyerX'


I did use also a transparent map, specially for the ends, but I think I have 
to scale down the uv mapping a bit as it does not seem to appear in the 
image.

Thomas

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> "FlyerX" <fly### [at] yahoocom> schreef in bericht
> news:471d67cc$1@news.povray.org...
> > Janet wrote:
> >>
> >> It makes me want to go and play with ribbons now. :) I bet you could get
> >> it
> >> even better by transitioning the ends to transparent. Do all the ribbons
> >> use the same UV mapping?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > The UV mapping is the same for all. U is along the ribbon and V is across.
> >
> > FlyerX'
>
>
> I did use also a transparent map, specially for the ends, but I think I have
> to scale down the uv mapping a bit as it does not seem to appear in the
> image.
>
> Thomas

Maybe something like this? I was trying it out. Renders slow, needs higher
max_trace_level, wouldn't even wanna try radiosity with it. lol

Janet

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And a hair texture to go with the trans map.

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"Janet" <par### [at] attnet> schreef in bericht 
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> And a hair texture to go with the trans map.
>

Thank you Janet! I am going to experiment with those maps. I think that the 
main problem is going to be to find convenient hair maps. We shall have to 
make them ourselves (other challenge).

As you said earlier, radiosity is a real issue. Imagine you have a scene 
with a dozen figures with nice hairdoes. It will take weeks to render!

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> As you said earlier, radiosity is a real issue. Imagine you have a scene 
> with a dozen figures with nice hairdoes. It will take weeks to render!

   Well, perhaps saving rad without the hair and then loading it with hair 
will work...

--
Jaime

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
> "Janet" <par### [at] attnet> schreef in bericht
> news:web.471ed76d8905805f9ac6d8a40@news.povray.org...
> > And a hair texture to go with the trans map.
> >
>
> Thank you Janet! I am going to experiment with those maps. I think that the
> main problem is going to be to find convenient hair maps. We shall have to
> make them ourselves (other challenge).

I made the one I posted in Photoshop.

> As you said earlier, radiosity is a real issue. Imagine you have a scene
> with a dozen figures with nice hairdoes. It will take weeks to render!

Yes, weeks! ...faint...
Here's an image that uses the maps I posted. It took a while to render with
just one light source, no radiosity, max_trace_level 40.
Average was 90 pps, and took about an hour.

Janet

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