Fur Materials - Optimized

This master material is of medium-quality with a medium feature set. It gives artists a fair amount of control and works well for optimized games. Best for projects with:

• Baked lighting
• Restrictive hardware
• Strict performance requirements (like VR)

Color

• Color Base
  • A color texture map that is applied to the fur
• Color Scale
  • the UV scale of the Color Base map

Fur_Control

• Growth
  • Controls, at the micro-scale, where fur should be applied or removed.
  • The use of this feature should be resolved for small-scale density change - not for large scale length!
  • Use a greyscale mask in the Growth texture if you want fur to taper off in density, or be completely missing in some areas.
  • This texture should be Linear (uncheck sRGB in the texture's settings)
• Growth Scale
  • the UV scale of the Growth map.
• Pattern
  • The texture used, essentially as a heightmap, to define what shape and volume the appearance will take.
• Pattern Scale
  • the UV scale of the Pattern map.

Lighting

• AO_Occlusion
  • The strength at which a pseudo ambient occlusion is applied, applying darkness to the lowest layers of shells with a falloff towards the tips.
• AO_Pattern
  • The strength at which a pseudo ambient occlusion will be applied, utilizing the pattern map.
  • 0 is the weakest, 1 is the strongest.
• AO_Pattern_Darkness
• PBR_Metallic
  • Metallic property of the material
• PBR_Roughness
  • Roughness property of the material
• PBR_Specular
  • Specular strength of the material

Static Switch parameters

• Adjust Pattern Curve
  • enable tweaking of the pattern's strength on a curve, so it can be biased in either direction
• BaseColor_UseTextures
  • enable/disable the use of a texture map to control color
  • disabling this feature allows for the use of a color value instead of a texture map.
• Enable Growth Map
  • enable/disable the use of a growth map
• Enable Tip Color
  • enable/disable the root/tip color control with additional parameters