Painting Fur Attributes Is Clunky

[rocdonow]

I'm trying to paint fur attributes like length and baldness. The problem is the brush paints way to clunky. Even though the geometry is fairly dense the brush paints like it is a much lower density mesh. I tried increasing the dimensions of the map but no success.

[petershipkov]

increase the resolution of the fur textures.
by default it is set to 256x256.

[kloveridge]

I am having the same problem. But what I keep seeing is this. I can turn up the map resolution to anything and it appears that the FurFeedback value is overriding the map size.

So, suppose I am using a 512x512 map. If FurFeedback is set to 32x32, it takes my 512x512 map and paints in 16x16 cells on the 512x512 map! What's up with that? Why would the FurFeedback setting dictate what is being painted on the map!!!

[kloveridge]

Hmmm, maybe the feedback attribute doesn't matter. However, here is something that does. I am using Maya 8.5. I have this bear skin that I was applying Maya fur to.

For some reason maya Fur suddenly was behaving like it was completely broken. Like the artisan tool was running very slow. When I painted fur direction, half the model wouldn't respond to my painting. Parts of the model would painted black regardless of the direction of my stroke. etc.

So I did a test case on a sphere. I applied the fur and it behaved fine.

I went back to my bear model and pulled out on UV's. It turned out I had ONE face that fell out of the 0 to 1 UV range. I fixed this one face and viola! Everything suddenly worked fine! You might want to make sure you don't have any UV"s out of the 0-1 range.

Maya should have reported some kind of a warning message about this!

[knekker]

"ONE face that fell out of the 0 to 1 UV range."

Im having the same problem my self, i've unwrapped the UV's with Automatic Mapping, to make sure it unwraps the cordinates right. Yet i still see these black spots.

So my question is, what method did you take into use, for fixing this 1 face that was out of the 0-1 range.
Another question, is there a way to see wether a face is out of the 0-1 range without having to look at the rendered picture?

Any help would be apreciated