Check out these free videos to help get you up and going with the Fiber FX tools in LightWave 9.5, over 1 hour of free training videos



Creating Thick Grass with Fiber FX: Download

Instancing with Fiber FX: Download

Creating a Tennis Ball Surface as seen in this thread earlier: Download

Introduction to the Strand Maker: Download

Introduction to the Strand Tool: Download

Here are a few introductory videos about the FiberFX Strand Modeler:

Fiber Tab: Download

Guides Tab: Download

Random Tab: Download

Gravity Tab: Download

Dog Hair: Download

Using a Bias Vmap to style hair: Download


For more information : http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/newtek-...-5-t16230.html - www.lightwave3d.com


FiberFX Highlights:

* Interactive fiber styling and modeling
* Volumetric shadows
* Support of fiber rendering in reflection and refraction
* Creates UV mapped polygonal fibers
* Fast smooth pixel filter fiber rendering
* Animate with LightWave dynamics and collisions
* Unlimited ScreamerNet support
* Nodal Handler
* Area and linear light support
* Full volumetric renderer
* Volumetric instancing to allow for tens of thousands of instances and millions of rendered polygons per instance

* Save and Load functions and buttons for surface-based fiber settings in the Strand Modeler. This allows users to save fiber settings for re-use

* Support for hair and fur on sub-d meshes
* Swirl function to produce more of a twisting effect of the strands
* "Headless" strand scan does not require single point polygon to be present in strand to define start of strand. Useful in imported hair models

* Evaluated vparm color in interface for preview of fibers
* Per pixel fiber coloring
* Popup control for interpolated or per pixel color.
* Load and save for button state
* Faster and more robust voxel/ray clipper