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Where is the Material from the Tutorial Video?

Ballsproblem 9 years ago updated by john Michael 2 years ago 3

This video has a material example which is a lot different than any of the provided materials -

Youtube video

Is that material available anywhere? The Mobile material has a "growth" slot but not most of the other parameters and the Optimized does not have a growth slot and neither does Complex. I know enough to make my own material variant from scratch...but if I'm missing something and this thing exists somewhere I'd like to know.

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Fur Not Working Correctly

Jessica 9 years ago updated by john Michael 2 years ago 14

Hello, I'm relatively new to working in UE4 and I'm having trouble setting up Neofur in my project. I can't seem to get the fur to look like fur on a complicated object. There are no strands and the texture looks like scales. I might have not clicked a check box or something but I have no idea where to look.

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That is how the object looks with neofur, and below is how the object is supposed to look. I'm just looking to make it look fuzzy, like the caterpillar in the neofur trailer.

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Flickering Issues If the bounds of your skeletal mesh are unspecified or invalid, this could cause your fur component to flash in and out of visibility.This is a common issue, and can be fixed in a number of ways.Try making certain your skeletal mesh has a physics setup with capsules for all major bones.Try artificially increasing the "bounds scale" of your skeletal component via the options. (not recommended for production)

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Bug: NeoFur Asset Growth Mesh/Morph Target reseting

Tyler 9 years ago updated by john Michael 2 years ago 3

I'm using my morph target in my growth mesh to drive fur firection. The problem is that sometimes the fur resets for no apparent reason and I have to simply reassign the skeletal growth mesh to the fur asset by dragging and dropping and it corrects itself. The fur assets is already reading this skeletal mesh with the proper naming of the morph target, so it's strange that it has to randomly be reassigned... Is this a known bug?

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UE4 - Fur on Characters

Smudgy67 9 years ago updated by Mike Rooney 2 years ago 3

Hey there,


I have 12 characters that I would like to have different fur on. So I 'd like to get the first one right.

I followed your tutorial about the fur on the bear (most impressive, thank you). The results I got were not so great though. It ended with two characters, the original placed one and the shell one, who was positioned above the original character and at right angles to. Why two characters?

I'd like to be able to control these characters (thirdPersonMesh) also,

Could you help, please?

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neofur asset isn't render on android (VR)

florent raoul 9 years ago updated by john Michael 2 years ago 4

Hello everybody !

I make some tests UE4 and cardboard VR on a cheap android device.

I manage to do somethings but when I try to put a neofur asset in my scene, there's nothing...

In editor, everything is OK.

I have to package my "game" (it's not a game yet at all ^^) for android ETC1.

I try to use the mobile material on other asset and I can see it. It's the neofur asset that is not anymore in my scene.

Have you any advice ?


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Carlos Montero 9 years ago

Have you tried disabling compute shaders by forcing CPU mode? This is the most likely culprit. You'll find it under the debug menu in your fur component.

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Morph target from 3ds Max

gbernal 9 years ago updated by Mike Rooney 2 years ago 14

I’m currently trying to integrate fur growth to my character only in certain areas. Similar to what your tutorial in the video attached demonstrates. However, I can’t really follow how the rigged mesh at 7:44 in the video is created. If I try to delete mesh triangles , in order to only have a morph target mesh. The skeleton and the mesh are no longer linked. I would be very helpful if you could walk us through those steps, I’m sure am I’m not the only can benefit from this.


Thank you and I hope you can provide some insight.

G

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Hey there!


The easiest way to create a modified growth mesh is to make a duplicate of your skinned mesh in 3ds Max. You can modify this duplicated mesh through an Edit Poly/Mesh modifier, which should retain any skin/rig bindings. My guess is that the way in which you're modifying the mesh is causing the skin/rig binding to be lost, which will cause the skeleton and mesh to no longer be 'linked', as you describe.


As an example for you, I set up this simple skinned sphere as a base mesh. The mesh and modifier stack look like this:



To create the growth mesh, I duplicated the skinned sphere object. Using an Edit Poly modifier, I deleted the middle portion of the sphere. I created my morph targets by using a copy of this modified growth mesh, and then set up the Morpher modifier. I'm making sure that any modifiers I add are beneath the Skin modifier in the stack. After doing all of that, the mesh and modifier stack now looks like this:




Once I set the appropriate growth mesh and morph target name in the NeoFurAsset, my object appears as expected - fur growth only occurs in the area defined by the growth mesh, and the movement of the growth mesh (and fur) matches the movement of the animated base mesh:





I hope this example is useful - please let me know if I misunderstood the issue you're experiencing or if you're continuing to have problems, so we can assist you further!

-Spencer

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Neofur 4.13 OSX Animals 1 sample content crashes UE4

EVL Media 9 years ago updated by john Michael 2 years ago 14

Not sure what else to say. UE 4.13.2 on OSX, the latest plugin Neofur Indie 383, trying to load and preview the Neofur Animals 1 content package I just bought and it all crashes. Can't even load the maps on their own to attempt a rebuild of the lighting or shader recompile, engine simply crashes.

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how to import purchased material pack into existing project?

gbernal 9 years ago updated by john Michael 2 years ago 3

As the title says, I have purchased the scifi material pack but I don't see a documentation as to how to import those material into an existing project.

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We were in the process of writing the article in it and you were a little too fast for us.


Here's the article, please let us know if it helps:

http://support.neoglyphic.com/topics/106-using-material-packs-for-unreal/

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Shadow issue, hairs too bright

Swinny 9 years ago updated by Johny 8 months ago 6

Hello,

There seems to be an issue where the fur shader, no matter what i do or how many things i turn off - always seem to have some kind of brightness. this results in poor results as the fur sticks out on the character when in shadow. thoughts?

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Carlos Montero 9 years ago

Hi there! Apologies for the delayed reply - but this one is a bit perplexing


Any way we could see a screenshot of this?

Are you using the complex shader?

Have you followed best practices - as described here:

mainly - make sure shadows and normal direction are enabled.

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NeoFur Plugin Does not seem to work anymore.

Celeritas 9 years ago updated by john Michael 2 years ago 4

Hi, I previously worked with neofur 2.0 release. But recently I installed into new project. latest version, and neofur just does not seem to work. I quickly setup a furasset using a copy of the render mesh. add neofur component then added the furasset. yet it does not load the hair shader representing hair. I add complex master material. makes no different acts like regular object. As if plugin is no enabled. The plugin is enabled under project plugins and the correct version is installed.


I did get this error msg after updating to new version.Proceeded with overwriting old shader.

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Need help, I dont see why it's not working. what am I missing?