That looks cool V3!!

I almost gave up

so if we want to render fur or hair? we use xsi hair system or the strands(ice)?

The most exciting thing for me))))

This instances can have one uv texture which you can use to color the root to tip as example.

yes, I got it

If the instance havent a texture, the ICE color is used. You can also read in a texture from the emitted mesh and use this to drive the ICE color value. So you can emulate a zebra look ...

this is very cool

and I still have last two question(still the hair question)

even I use this way(use ICE make fur or hair)

how can I control the texture of all the skin(like...tiger or.Zebra),and the color map of root to tip?


thank you,Face

I'm very looking forward to rendering Fur in softimage

because my studio must use it to do our creative movie..........

for now, my partners use a plugin to transfer ice to mesh (fur using ICE)
and also try to use fur to Instance

but...all the same problem...the texture of fur on the skin will ...

if we can not render hair in xsi plug in
how about we use the Alembic??? and render fur in octane stand alone verson?
http://exocortex.com/products/crate/description

did you try this way before?

by the way...
my company maybe plan to buy redshift because we can use it render fur , but I really don ...

hi Face

we appreciate very much that your help ~

but I got some problem in 1.02RC12

when i render the pass , it show error information: Can't create output directory


and abort......

Unless we type all path (ex: W:\project name\file names*format....etc.)

the new verson support "Hair or fur"? (OctaneRender™ for Blender 1.55 - 4.10 beta)

we are deeply grateful!!!

The only way i see is to use Alembic, but i don´t know how to setup Alembic to export hair or ICE-Strands.-----------------------yes I also don't know how to do this....

thanks for your help

the softimage2015 is the end verson.... do you still to develope the 2.X plugin for softimage2015?

we hope ...

I use plugin i.01---------------Windows 1.01 beta Plugin for Softimage® x64

and Octane render standalone 2.03

I still can not render the hair in softimage this verson

but i saw the new verson RELEASE NOTES:

Hair rendering
An optimized hair render primitive is now available to allow rendering of ...