UE4 Smart Fur Material features
Hi guys!
This is an UE4 Smart Fur material for CGI, VFX, Cinematic, Cartoons, Short Films, Commercials, Advertising and anything else you want.
It is NOT an UE4 grooms based Hairs (so, no physics), but just a displacement based highly customizable and animatable Smart Fur.
It is NOT an UE4 grooms based Hairs (so, no physics), but just a displacement based highly customizable and animatable Smart Fur.
Material has two Color maps + two Fill Colors + two Fur Length maps + two Overlay maps, which allows you to create animations of any length, using animatable MPC parameters and switching between different material Instances (check out the second video).
This bear has just 33k tris, 16.5k polygons!
Tested in Unreal Engine versions: UE 4.25, UE 4.26, UE 4.27
How to install it to your own project:
1. Open project file SmartFur.uproject in your version of UE4.
2. Select materials you want (or just base material) in folder "\Content\Materials\SmartFur\"
3. Right click on this selected files, then choose "Asset Actions -> Migrate..."
4. Make sure all checkboxes are checked, then click OK, then choose "/Content" folder of your destination UE4 project.
5. After the process of migrating assets to your project is completed, the message "Content migration completed successfully!" will be displayed.
6. That's all.
You can use this material in versions prior 4.25 too - just copy-paste the base material nodes.
You can get this material here:
Also you can get my Free Simple Fur material for testing:
The package contains an Unreal Engine 4.25 project that includes:
- One Smart Fur material + 7 predefined Instances I used to render the demo video.
- Level Sequence + Music track + everything else that is needed to render the demo video.
- Movie Render Queue Preset I used to render.
- Bear 3D model source file in Blender format, both High Poly (33k tris) and Low Poly (6.8k tris).
- All used textures in PNG.
All source files are in the folder SmartFur\ObjectsSources
Wish you have fun with this!