Topic: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

Hi i am quiet new to blender and maratis. i have a character that has hair strands to give it a realistic looking hair.

When i try to export it as .mesh file and load it into maratis the hair strands do not appear does maratis support the hair strand in blender ?

If so can you help me try to get it working please.

  • anael
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Re: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

Hi,

there is probably a problem in your material (Maratis doesn't use exactly the same material properties as Blender)
be sure to check this tutorial : http://www.maratis3d.org/?p=277

But basically for hair strands, Maratis will use the alpha channel of the diffuse texture (use a png or tga with alpha channel),
be sure that the "alpha" value in the material is 1 and not 0.

For hair I suggest to use black and white alpha (no grey values) and no blending,
otherwise, if you really wants grey-value alpha, be sure to select the "alpha" blendMode,
but in this case the z-test will be disabled.

Re: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

Thank you for the quick reply

I will try your suggestion and let you know how i got on

Thank again

Re: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

Hi

i have tried all day to get the hair strands in Maratis maybe i am doing something wrong but i done as was suggested and i am still having a problem

Help would be a hugely appreciated

  • anael
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Re: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

Hi,

if you want you can send me your mesh file and the texture by email,
or at least the hair if you don't want to send the full object
(if you can also send the blend file it's good).

Re: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

Hi

i have sent you the  .mesh and .blend file. Thanks for the help

Re: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

Are you using the particle hair in blender, or textured planes?

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Re: Exporting hair from blender to maratis

He used blender particle hair, that was the problem as it cannot be supported like that in real-time, it need to be textured plane.