Pyro Nicampt

I always thought it would be fun to stretch as a taur, with an extra pair of limbs to spread out. c:

uuuuuuh youtube tutorial search blender particle system fur I haven't found any good ones I had to just figure shit out so all the information I give you may be horrendously wrong

once you've learned how to do it it;s just another skill ou need to get better at, render in cycles if you can eevee isn't that good at fur

and if you have to use eevee go onto your light settings and turn on contact shadows, if it doesn't do anything turn the brightness up it is really the only way to make the fur not look flat in eevee

in eevee yoiu need to do a bunch of shader magic to make hte fur not look plastic good luck and you do find a tutorial on that show me pretty please, in cycles just use principled hair bsdf and you've won

in both engines use hair curves

the simulation itself is a paain make sure your model isn't too small because that can fuck things up, avoid clipping where you can, turn down the collision distance both in the particle system istelf and outer thickness in collision properties, don't put the stiffness or damping too high or low. if it explodes after you do all of that you might be fucked (it's very bad with short fur and objects that are really close to each other, I had to give up when I did my azdarchids wings) if you manage to not make it explode congrats! that is also all I did!

Just throw that into a nodegroup and you're mostly good to go! You can also use a Vector Scale node set to -1 instead of a subtract from zero.

The principled BSDF has gone through a few changes since that screenshot, but it still works in the file I have saved. I have roughness set to 0.625 and metallic to 0.0.

It's really not a perfect replacement, but it's a hell of a lot better than eevee's lack of hair BSDF.

And in Blender 4.2, the raytracing smooths it out even better than previous versions (despite losing the contact shadows option)

I should probably see about making an updated nodegroup, since I made this back when 2.8 was released, and I've learned a fair bit since then.

Also, if you got any questions, I'm happy to answer best I can since I've been using blender for at least a decade at this point

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically