Photorealistic Rug Hair and Fur Tutorial

Hair & fur.

Earlier in the year we shared our Swoon CGI roomset on Corona forums and received a lot of requests for a tutorial on how the wool rug was created.

So Voila! Here is a video tutorial showing the 3D process in as quick a time as possible.

Buy the rug 3D model.

If you just want the model you can purchase our version here or here

Video notes.

These are the hair and fur settings we used in the video, you may want to adjust the values to suit your own model. The links in the references section below gives a better understanding of each rollout.

General parameters.

• Hair count = 50,000 (for testing) / 500,000 (for final render)
• Segments = 30
• Passes = 3
• Density = 100
• Scale = 13
• Cut Length = 35
• Rand Scale = 25
• Root Thick = 3.5
• Tip Thick = 3.5
• Displacement = 2.0

Flyaway parameters.

• Percent = 5
• Strength = 0.05

Clumping parameters.

• Clumps = 20
• Strength = 0.1
• Scruffle = 25
• Rotation = 0.1
• Colors = 0.01

Kink parameters.

• Kink Root = 0.3
• Kink Tip = 3
• Kink X Freq = 3
• Kink Y Freq = 3
• Kink Z Freq = 100

Reference Links.

Corona hair materials

• Corona FAQ solutions link

Autodesk 3DS Max - Hair & Fur

• General parameters
• Flyaway parameters
• Clumping parameters
• Kink parameters
• Frizz parameters

Reference images.

Reference images of the rug are available here.