Look at my Hair (LAMH) Official Thread: update 1.6.0.2 released

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  • Does the update also include the free version? And does this mean that LAMH can already be used for iray? I wasn't able to use it for iray before.

    LAMH has always supported Iray in some form.  Actually, LAMH supported Iray before Iray was in DS.  LAMH FiberHair has always been Iray compatible,  In fact, exporting LAMH FiberHair directly into DS for rendering in Iray is as simple as checking the "Show in Studio" checkbox in the LAMH GUI.

    In the free Player, one must export the preset to OBJ and then load that into DS.  That's one of the differences between the full LAMH and the free player.

    Kendall

    Mine doesn't work, I loaded an animal rights with an iray LAMH preset and it didn't work in iray only in 3delight.

    Are you using the full or free version of LAMH?

    Kendall

    Only using the free version of LAMH, does that affect it?

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,293
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

     

     

     

    Those are good renders. That looks like a road runner although it's too small. Where did you find that road runner?

  • unknownmystery445unknownmystery445 Posts: 414
    edited February 2017
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    Post edited by unknownmystery445 on
  • smaker1smaker1 Posts: 281
    smaker1 said:
    smaker1 said:

    Help me Alessandro, I found a bug!!

    I load, for exemple, the fox : OK, I have the fox and the lamh group in my scene.

    I put all of them in a group (DS4 group): OK. I don't do anything more

    I save my scene : OK

    I want to re-open my scene: CRASH!

    Please help me crying  I have a BIG scene with many hours of work I can't open anymore! (I opened a ticket with the log)

     

     

    It is possible to fix the scene without recreating, but it does take a bit of technical know-how. Kendall


    I'm interested !!

    Hello Alessandro and Kendall

    after a good night sleep I had and idea: if I de-activate the LAMH plug-in could I load my scene? the answer is YESSS!

    So I deleted the DS4-group containing the fox and the Lamh group and saved a new scene. After re-activating the plug-in I loosed the lamh group from my scene but that's nothing compared to the rest. I reloaded the fox and applied the same pose (without any group now!)

    I feel better and will be more careful with LAMH !  smiley

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited February 2017
    using the free player you must click on the "OBJ" button in the LAMH pane and then import the resulting output into DS manually.

    Kendall

    Does the update also include the free version? And does this mean that LAMH can already be used for iray? I wasn't able to use it for iray before.

    LAMH has always supported Iray in some form.  Actually, LAMH supported Iray before Iray was in DS.  LAMH FiberHair has always been Iray compatible,  In fact, exporting LAMH FiberHair directly into DS for rendering in Iray is as simple as checking the "Show in Studio" checkbox in the LAMH GUI.

    In the free Player, one must export the preset to OBJ and then load that into DS.  That's one of the differences between the full LAMH and the free player.

    Kendall

    Mine doesn't work, I loaded an animal rights with an iray LAMH preset and it didn't work in iray only in 3delight.

    Are you using the full or free version of LAMH?

    Kendall

    Only using the free version of LAMH, does that affect it?

    Post edited by Kendall Sears on
  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second rend

     

    Those are good renders. That looks like a road runner although it's too small. Where did you find that road runner?

    Actually it was a field thasher i kind of fatten up . i was trying to make him look like a woodcock.

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited February 2017
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    Post edited by Ivy on
  • Use the Fiberhair export (blue button) and you won't need to use the objs. And the resource use will be MUCH less.
    Kendall
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    Use the Fiberhair export (blue button) and you won't need to use the objs. And the resource use will be MUCH less.
    Kendall

    Duh! Thanks Kendall  that worked much better. I keep forgetting about that fiberhair button 

     

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  • Excellent renders Ivy! Well the conversion to Iray can be a massive process, but hopefully there will be exciting news not too far from now that will make Iray render much straightforward and painless. In the meantime, I like to composite Iray renders and 3DL (LAMH furred) renders, it works very well and can produce great results.

    Ivy said:

     

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

     

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited February 2017

    There were 3 Labs sitting on a river bank...Then! Gallery Post

    Rendered in Iray using my hair groups in instances HDRi Back ground. credits in my gallery post

    Thanks again kendall for reminding me about the fiberhair button to extport my hair obj.  I was able to cut off 2/3 of my vram usage,  freakin awesome.

    Post edited by Ivy on
  • Ivy said:
     

    This is awesome!

  • unknownmystery445unknownmystery445 Posts: 414
    edited February 2017
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

    Post edited by unknownmystery445 on
  • no. full version is not necessary. it just makes it easier. see my message above.
    Kendall

    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

  • no. full version is not necessary. it just makes it easier. see my message above.
    Kendall
     
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

     

    How do I get the LAMH editor? Is it already included in the free version? Sorry for asking because I'm still new to 3D.

  • pdspds Posts: 593
    edited February 2017
    no. full version is not necessary. it just makes it easier. see my message above.
    Kendall
     
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

     

    How do I get the LAMH editor? Is it already included in the free version? Sorry for asking because I'm still new to 3D.

    It's available for purchase in the Daz store:

    http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair

    If you have previously installed the free player, you need to uninstall it (use DIM if that's how you installed it originally) before installing the full-featured plugin. After installing, go to your "My Account" page and click on the "Serial Numbers" button to locate your serial number for LAMH. You'll use that to register the plugin.

    Post edited by pds on
  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    pds said:

     

    no. full version is not necessary. it just makes it easier. see my message above.
    Kendall
     
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

     

    How do I get the LAMH editor? Is it already included in the free version? Sorry for asking because I'm still new to 3D.

    It's available for purchase in the Daz store.

    A link helps  http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair    It does go on sale frome time to time.

  • pdspds Posts: 593
    Chohole said:
    pds said:

     

    no. full version is not necessary. it just makes it easier. see my message above.
    Kendall
     
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

     

    How do I get the LAMH editor? Is it already included in the free version? Sorry for asking because I'm still new to 3D.

    It's available for purchase in the Daz store.

    A link helps  http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair    It does go on sale frome time to time.

    I edited my post while you were responding, lol. I was on my phone which made gathering everything together more cumbersome.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    pds said:
    Chohole said:
    pds said:

     

    no. full version is not necessary. it just makes it easier. see my message above.
    Kendall
     
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

     

    How do I get the LAMH editor? Is it already included in the free version? Sorry for asking because I'm still new to 3D.

    It's available for purchase in the Daz store.

    A link helps  http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair    It does go on sale frome time to time.

    I edited my post while you were responding, lol. I was on my phone which made gathering everything together more cumbersome.

    My phone plugs in the wall and receives phone calls,  I find it simpler that way  

  • pdspds Posts: 593
    edited February 2017
    Chohole said:
    pds said:
    Chohole said:
    pds said:

     

    no. full version is not necessary. it just makes it easier. see my message above.
    Kendall
     
    Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

     

    How do I get the LAMH editor? Is it already included in the free version? Sorry for asking because I'm still new to 3D.

    It's available for purchase in the Daz store.

    A link helps  http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair    It does go on sale frome time to time.

    I edited my post while you were responding, lol. I was on my phone which made gathering everything together more cumbersome.

    My phone plugs in the wall and receives phone calls,  I find it simpler that way  

    Mine too, that's why responding was so difficult. cheeky

    Post edited by pds on
  • Ivy said:
    Ivy said:

    Hi Alessandro Thought I show you a couple of renders i did in iray with LAMH for Mill dog one of the hardest renders i ever did . i made instances out of the hair groups which worked best so i tried to do the same for the grass props.  anyway this was my results I think in the future I rather work with 3DL with LAMH studio crashed like 50 times trying to render it in Iray and i was well within my parameters. . The first one i used the dof setting on the camera which really hid the little flaws great the second render i turned the dof off and the pixels and other flaws are more noticeable. 

    On Point ~ Gallery post

    German Shorthair Pointer ~ Gallery Post

    How did you make LAMH work in iray?

    you have to have the full LAMH editor version .  in the the editor export your hairs as obj. files and then re import them in a instances set up to reduce the vram usage. I used 3 hair groups in 3 instances each. I had to manually add texture to the hair which I used a glass textured setting to make the hair look wet.  . I have 8 gigs of vram and i was using 7.8 gig or 98.7% of my vram for these renders with this set up

    So I have to purchase the full version? Vram isn't a problem I have 32 gb of ram, I'm just not sure if j want to purchase the full version though bec I'm not really satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, thanks for clarifying

    Just a clarification on this:  VRAM is the amount of RAM on your GPU card, not the DRAM in your system.

    Kendall

  • GreybroGreybro Posts: 2,503

    If this product and NVidia ever has native IRay support, I predict sales of this product to launch through the roof! In my experience it takes a lot of work to get my stuff looking even pasable, but once things are create, Holy Cow does the hair ever look nice!

  • xmasrosexmasrose Posts: 1,406

    An older render of the Mil Dog  with LAHM fur in Iray.

    http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/images/302396/

  • VortigensBaneVortigensBane Posts: 383
    edited February 2017

    REALLY, REALLY looking forward to native support for Iray with LAMH.  In the meantime, I think I've managed ok with Fibermesh export, but I am SOOOOOO looking forward to version 2...

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  • Greybro said:

    If this product and NVidia ever has native IRay support, I predict sales of this product to launch through the roof! In my experience it takes a lot of work to get my stuff looking even pasable, but once things are create, Holy Cow does the hair ever look nice!

    Native Iray and LuxRender support is a lot closer than you might think. devil

    Kendall

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,293

    Those are good.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,750
    Greybro said:

    If this product and NVidia ever has native IRay support, I predict sales of this product to launch through the roof! In my experience it takes a lot of work to get my stuff looking even pasable, but once things are create, Holy Cow does the hair ever look nice!

    Native Iray and LuxRender support is a lot closer than you might think. devil

    Kendall

    Good news. It seems like we've been waiting forever for a new update.

  • Yeah I haven't purchased the full version yet, going to wait for version 2 :)

  • pdspds Posts: 593

    REALLY, REALLY looking forward to native support for Iray with LAMH.  In the meantime, I think I've managed ok with Fibermesh export, but I am SOOOOOO looking forward to version 2...

    Wow, nice work! If you don't mind sharing, what ape model did you use and did you have to create your own hair within LAMH or was there a preset available?

  • The ape model is the HiveWire Gorilla for Dusk.  I had to create my own hair preset.  The image was actually created for the sake of the kitten, for which I am making a "finished" LAMH preset; the gorilla was just a quickie.

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