MtoA 507 | XGen Fur with aiStandardHair

Welcome back to my channel and thank you for checking out this new and exciting tutorial!
In this video I will be showing you how to setup a simple interactive grooming tutorial with Maya and Xgen. I will go over basic grooming techniques, until we have our expected result.
Then I am showing you how to apply shaders to the groom, setup lighting, and render it with arnold.
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[@lollipoptjh]

this is like learning lots of things in just one tutorials, this is very helpful!! Thank youuuu!!!

[@NiboGL]

Thanks a lot Arvid! Awesome tutorial! You ROCK!

[@Thelaserboy]

Great tutorial, very useful and straightforward as usual, with Maya it's always welcomed the detail in your workflow!! Cheers man!!!!

[@arvidurs]

Great! Glad you like it

[@hoangnamnguyen8809]

damn 6 years later. This is very useful. Thank you

[@MusicViddeos]

This actually saved my life. Thank you.

[@livvyificationable]

Ahhhh Thankyou! Excited for this

[@cgfarmerstudio]

thank you Arvid...i was looking for this awesome video...thanks a lot for your hard work

[@philmehrart]

Dude I don't know much about arnold rendering as I typically work in games/realtime but this has been awesome, definitely gonna try learn more about rendering in general (and fur.) I really hope you do a full training series later on, thanks!

[@CherylynnLima]

your videos give me such joy

[@lililasson]

Thank you so much Arvid !!

[@OzAdi]

Thank you very much Arvid!

[@mojangindustry4087]

Amazing video! It's people like you who make me glad I decided to learn from youtube instead of collage. Quick Question, what computer are you using?

[@clon10x]

Thank you Arvid for this tutorial. Please make a leaf shader tutorial

[@davidmonteiro6822]

Hello Arvid, i have a basic but important question regarding xgen on animated characters: if the character is rigged and will be animated with bone deformations but also blendshapes - which workflow would you suggest to create the fur - create the xgen guides on the main mesh or rather duplicate the mesh and have the xgen guides created on the duplicate? Either way the mesh would always need to be bound to the deformed bones right? Thank you !

[@LuizRCGoncalves]

Nice tutorial! I only have one question: what are the AOVs available for the Standard Hair Shader? It seems I can't get any passes other the the beauty pass. Thanks in advance!

[@svivan20]

Great tut! Thanks!

[@superpacmaniac]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@mazeillusions]

Hi there, cool tutorial I have an issue when applying shader... The fur doesnt take texture color and rendering as a one color shader. I did all steps as you show and when i am unhide fur at 31:58 the fur is just one flat color and on render too. How can i solve it Any thouts I would really appreciate

[@ajlbeer]

Nice stuff Arvid. Thanks for sharing this! And yeah, people hitting the dislike button... lol. What is it with youtube that attracts so many grumpy people? Are they just little kids who don't understand the concept of community, sharing and good will? Or are they genuinely trolls, living under a bridge :P

[@monocore]

By far the most comprehensive guide to arnold ive found in this place. I use C4dtoA, and this guy has helped me improve my render game A LOT. I will always be grateful.

[@lex945]

good tutorial, thank you

[@p5rry]

How are you resizing/moving Arnold Renderview window without selecting the borders?

[@wilsonhuang2299]

Great ！ Thank you so much~~!!!!!

[@useresu301]

25:58 starts the actual fur shading I hate everything about Maya's nodes workflow - confusing backwards and glitchy

[@yeahyeahyeahokayyyyy]

Thank you!!!

[@DeepakRajan]

Hi arvid...thank you for the tutorial.....can you make a tutorial on how to import xgen into katana?

[@bhuwansharmaa]

I am grooming a bird in xgen and having problem with texture map..... dont know why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the grooms are not inheriting the UVs of the surface they are attached to and thus i cant customize the color pattern ....... can you help??????

[@irenecerezowip]

Thank you very much for the tutorial. 😍Would you know how to make the hair show up in Arnold's ZDepth pass?

[@shefahealthcare3303]

I found it very completed as compare to 2020. Is there any other way to directly color and make the pattern?

[@davidmonteiro6822]

Hello Arvid, Is the alstandartHair shader working with Maya 2018 now? i have 2 Maya lights in the scene but i just get a black render... any ideas what the problem could be? Thank you!

[@christianraxo7535]

Make the render on arnold.. and add a loooot of light

[@ryart579]

I'm currently doing a tiger for my college project but I've had no advice as to how to texture the entire body of a tiger. Any advice?

[@linliu4909]

Hi Arvid, thanks for great video here. I have a question for you. How can I get display number on the grid?

[@dshaynietheawesome]

no matter what i do the fur will not have the texture applied for some reason both in viewport and render

[@arvidurs]

Have you checked my latest fur video?

[@luisgerardozavalazamudio5955]

Excelent tutorial, but in the minute 16:30 I cant find the "collision" how can I find that option?

[@sonkhuatminh3496]

me too

[@ahmedteeka]

Amazing thanks alot

[@WildHawkShadow]

Does anyone know if you can render hair in marmoset that you made with xgen?

[@randomstuff6094]

i did the same settings as you but it renders out as a strips of rectangles even though i tweaked the taper.

[@jackr8558]

Are you using the arnold renderer?

[@mustafanuroncel]

Thank you very much

[@iTsAznThunder]

Hello Arvid! I was wondering if you would consider doing a tutorial covering procedural shading in Arnold? Seems to be extremely useful when having multiple props in a scene. But there doesn't seem to be any tutorials really covering it. Just a suggestion! Keep up the awesome work.

[@ultraindigo]

Hi there! Since this is a long tutorial I was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions. 1. Is this tutorial compatible with Maya 2016? 2. Are any of the shading techniques you apply incompatible with another render engine, say Redshift? Thanks!

[@arvidurs]

Hi there! Yes this video is probably a bit dated - and most of the shading techniques are only applicable to Arnold. I have a new version of this on my channel though, which might be a bit better

[@lmSheep]

Appreciate the video but i dont think you could have made the fur shading part any more complicated

[@arvidurs]

Sorry to hear that. I will try to make it better the next time. Arvid

[@TheCrimson147]

now im scared to watch the video :(

[@SALX808]

Yeah I have no idea what is happening as he flies around fixing that blinn issue.

[@downoladfullmovies3665]

helpfully!!!!!!

[@afcmontero]

Is there a way to scale the xgen along with the rig character? seems that the "xgGuides" are not able to follow the rig structrure whe you try to scale the character

[@tstanimations13]

Great Tutorial ;) Thank you! I had the same issues on creating the fur like you...I think there are still some bugs, but it is a really great tool. How would you transfer the fur to a character with animation? I don't want to make the groom in my rigging or animation scene. I only want to replace my alembic cache, but I doesn't work. Anyone with a solution for transfering the fur? ( The transfer function crashes everytime I use it)

[@mariokim6873]

Trying to render xgen fur in Maya 2020.4. Arnold will not render xgen at all. What is the trick? Searched in google nobody seems to have this problem? I tried in 2 different machines. Any ideas?

[@frostofficial3497]

My approximate spline count is stucked at very lower counts, can tell me what to do about it??

[@62cky4powerthirst]

I cant find aiHair, is it tied to a plugin? EDIT: Thats because it's only found in the hypershade: not the node editor.

[@junhyuk9000]

why are you make a two sculpt layer ? 11:30

[@cassou124]

Have you made a tutorial on how to animate XGen fur, and, if not, will you do one in the future? (I can't seem to find any tutorials for moving meshes, for some reason) Thank you

[@arvidurs]

Hey, currently not planning to do so

[@cassou124]

Alright, thanks for answering!

[@lgtwzrd]

I'm new to this so I wonder why you chose this approach of creating hair with the interactive groom editor instead of the standard XGen panel. I also don't understand how those two editors connect at all. Very confusing interface.

[@dotunakinlabi3253]

You read my mind exactly

[@BOXINGandMODDING]

Answer is here - knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-CharEffEnvBuild/files/GUID-C0470142-600B-4615-8110-EC779934DF5F-htm.html

[@simonzhang7008]

@@BOXINGandMODDING holy shit yes this is so important

[@sebastianpossel6687]

how to connect node from node editor to attribute editor?. Thanks for the video

[@ondudengrund]

Could you make a video about getting the same texture on to Xgen fur made with the groomable splines ( insted of the interactive grooming splines ) ?

[@npmmalayalamvfxtutorials1717]

unwrap object Apply lambert Xgen create description go to the preview/output scroll down to "custom output parameters" enter name - float to color - add Create map by right-clicking select brush then paint on the object then save button go to the hypershade find the file under textures - graph network load the image that you want again to preview or output window save button again Ta da

[@ondudengrund]

@@npmmalayalamvfxtutorials1717 thanks you : )

[@BOXINGandMODDING]

@@npmmalayalamvfxtutorials1717 I failed with final step, can you assist a bit? Can't see colored groom primitives. Even if I just paint black and white iff texture in color in custom shader parameters and svae it, I can't see it working.

[@npmmalayalamvfxtutorials1717]

@@BOXINGandMODDING don't use custom shader

[@kiransurwade3576]

awesome video !.. sir can you please tell us how to do the same with redshift renderer ?

[@TheCrimson147]

Can you please explain how you did the shading part, what's connected to what? Maybe send a screenshot of the final hypershade? After you deleted some shaders to fix render issues and connected some others, I got lost. edit: nevermind, fixed by changing render attributes. Thanks for tutorial.

[@arvidurs]

Great for solving it. I agree things do seem to change and it’s not always that straight forward. Happy rendering

[@teddude75]

Can you explain what a probability map is? And maybe how to apply it to a shader.

[@elmanu38]

good day!! do you have a tutorial or a tip for exporting xgen to unreal uvs or textures??

[@arvidurs]

Nope sorry - never tried

[@mordecai1484]

Thanks for your videos, They are full of information. How do we give different color to a fur along the curve? Can i find tutorial about that in your videos?

[@arvidurs]

it depends how you read the uvs - it's a little bit more tricky, but using the aiRamp node it's possible

[@josephbradley1781]

Hi, There. Amazing tutorial. Much more in-depth than others I have seen. Could you answer two questions for me. One, What is XGEN actually doing, creating a Material or creating a Shader or not creating anything. Two, how do you export your finished product to use outside of Maya. This is great if you can use it elsewhere. It's ok if you are using it to create marketing material where you only need a completed render, but totally useless if you need to use it for a game engine or other animation program like DAZ3D but can't . Thank you

[@arvidurs]

Xgen is just generating the curves for the render engine. The renderer itself does all the heavy lifting. To use it in external packages, you would need to cache and bake out the sequence as curves..depending on what the package supports..maybe alembic

[@josephbradley1781]

Arvid Schneider thank you for your answer, Arvid. I appreciate it. Now, being somewhat new to Xgen can you explain the purpose of it if you can’t use it outside of Maya.

[@bazonga9085]

R Golbraith Using it inside of maya is enough. That’s where it is rendered. You don’t need to take it out.

[@seencapone]

@@josephbradley1781 The purpose of it is to create, groom and render hair on your characters in Maya. There are ways to export the hair as polys for game engine characters and whatnot. But Maya is intended to be a complete production solution and most animators use it as such.

[@charlottekimberly6745]

Interactive Groom Editor doesn't show up for me. What should I do?

[@zhangjack9164]

Thx for your tutorial.But I can not achieve same result like you while I follow your step。I want the hair color link to texture，like animals skin，different areas have different color.When i link the base color to a texture, every fur turn to same color,like linked to a ramp texture.I have looked for help in arnold help document,but there is not any tutorial about that.I find your tutorial can achieve the result that i want,but i can not make the same result..

[@xxshotxdownxheartxx]

i have the same issue. Where you ever able to solve the problem?

[@michaelsingh6174]

I tried this but i found each strand had a texture on it instead of the the strands adopting the mesh pattern overall.

[@CherylynnLima]

when I try to render the hair, it shows up in the viewport but not in arnold. I just get the gray of the standard surface, while the hair isn't visible at all. this is 2019... do you know why this might happen?

[@CherylynnLima]

I tried rendering the exact same file in 2018 and it works. do you have any idea why this might happen in 2019?

[@arvidurs]

Hi, I haven’t tried this in 2019.. looks like I need to do another revamped version

[@CherylynnLima]

Arvid Schneider yeah, please let me know your results! I tried redownloading different Arnold and maya 2019 versions and it refuses to work. Not sure if this is a universal issue or a me problem

[@grizzzzzzli]

How much performance to consume that?

[@ronydey2696]

Great

[@OlegKhartov]

how to bake Fur for texture?

[@4kingdrift345]

How are the ruler numbers on the view realized?

[@arvidurs]

You can change the grid settings in maya display menus. And add those axis

[@9_granger]

wow

[@konstantinoschtenelis2350]

I can't find "aistandrardhair", i have the student's version of maya with arnold loaded. I can find "aihair". Plz help!

[@konstantinoschtenelis2350]

I have: MtoA 1.4.2.3, Arnold Core 4.2.16.4

[@konstantinoschtenelis2350]

I have the free licence of arnold

[@konstantinoschtenelis2350]

is it that i have arnold 4 and not 5? If so is it free to update my arnold? thank you

[@Denns300]

the new shader "aiStandardHair" is in Arnold 5 and yeah the update is free.

[@konstantinoschtenelis2350]

Thanks

[@speliermus3159]

It can be export to unity?

[@christoffer_schindel]

nope

[@keenanlucas702]

Why does it not batch render?????????

[@yippycat5303]

27:28

[@downoladfullmovies3665]

who are the foolishers dislike this!!! ;(

[@txyzlux1137]

:,), thk 1000

[@Mrproto]

doesn´t work for Xgen core

[@theplaguedaemon]

Mine just renders the fur black :/

[@RavageStudio]

Do you use arnold lighting?

[@kavishadow2483]

Set Melanin to 0

[@toon_rays_animation]

nothing understood and hard to realise

[@jacobhinston1676]

Hi , your work is fascinating i was just wondering though if you could do a tutorial on how to obtain an sss shader with a wet map like the one on the cg shark in this link area.autodesk.com/learning/kon_tiki_shark_shot_walk_through_by_ilp or the type of gold with reflection and all like in the WARNER BROS LOGO.........................please leave me your reply ASAP.Thanx in advance.

[@LetsPaintTogether]

it dont cost money to open hypershade

[@NewtaoV]

In some cases, aiStandardSurface looks better than aiStandardHair.

[@contaxHH]

i have no idea how to follow this tutorial

[@arvidurs]

Sorry about that. I might consider revisiting this video.

[@kylez1750]

@@arvidurs yes please

[@sizlax]

Protip: ignore blinn? Best I can tell, don't even add it? Seems like it was added by accident and has maybe no relevance in the tutorial.

[@A-museDesign]

So sir, I think when you were upset about the guide curves density, the answer was in the in guides_base, density multiplier. And are you single? lets get married!

[@grahamhiggins1816]

This is all far too complicated... I mean on mayas end. Its fiddly and complex. I'm lost.

[@sizlax]

Fur Artificial Intelligence Sexually Transmitted Disease hair? >,>

[@tyrant351]

So what bugs me about this tutorial is the viewport looked way better than anything you let render. Idk if it's because you just didn't let it fully render or what but I have 0 way of being sure your method works when you show us a pre-made product and not an actual finished process product. I appreciate the lessons on using XGen/Arnold for fur but-- yeah.

[@arvidurs]

Maybe you should just try the method and see if it works.

[@ShaneCasserly]

It will look good, this guy is a pro.

[@AP-if4pm]

This is a tutorial about how to take 5 minutes of content and stretch it to a 45 minute video.

[@ezzatullahfiroozi8518]

wow