NeoFur 2.0 released!

Press release 2016-09-29 08:45 article > Software

New version of the hair / fur plugin for Unreal Engine is here.

Neoglyphic Entertainment announced that it has released comprehensive feature updates to its real-time fur and fiber technology, NeoFur. Now available, NeoFur 2.0 for Unreal Engine 4 enables developers to better tackle the creation of challenging fuzzy and fibrous characters, objects and surfaces such as furred creatures, carpets, blankets, mosses and other natural landscapes. NeoFur is an easy-to-use, in-editor tool focused on giving developers outstanding performance and a fidelity level never before possible in a real-time engine. The company will provide NeoFur 2.0 as a free upgrade for all existing licensees.

NeoFur 2.0’s new features and performance improvements include:

Global Features

Tutorial videos and over 30 included materials
Motion blur now fully supported
Significantly faster CPU simulation for Mobile, HTML5 and other CPU-only platforms
Support for Nurbs curves via FBX (works w/ Maya hair systems)
Support for Unreal Engine 4.13
Support for Mac OSX Sierra

Shader features

4.11 hair Shading model fully utilized
Per-strand features: size, length, coloring, roughness, scattering
Simulated Undercoat and Overcoat systems

Experimental features

Variable hair clumping via vector maps
Variable hair curling via UV offsets

NeoFur 2.0 creates a beautiful illusion of millions of strands of fur, now with realistic anisotropic reflections, light scattering and shadowing. Neoglyphic’s advances have allowed the use of compute shaders and other advanced shading strategies to take that technique to the next level, bringing fast simulation, realistic physics, and unique Level-Of-Detail systems designed to combat fill-rate.

To celebrate the launch, any license of NeoFur 2.0 for Unreal Engine 4 can be purchased for 20% off until October 6, 2016 by using code NEOFURPR20 at checkout. More info: https://www.neoglyphic.com/neofur

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