Beyond Skyrim: Iliac Bay, Hyenas
Hyenas created for Beyond Skyrim: Iliac Bay. They may be cute, but I wouldn't pet him...
4816 tris, fully rigged and implemented.
I've included a quick tutorial on how to bake procedural fur onto a UV plane.
Full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aiosj8BKZw
Color map to fur color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL69gtlhR2E
Flatten object to UVs nodes: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/231662/how-to-convert-uv-to-mesh-in-blender/231667#231667
load screen
in game, front
in game, side
using base-game dog animations
3D viewer: Hyena
Fur color - First I created a color map, to tell the procedural fur which color to use where.
Fur painting - I painted fur onto the base low poly, taking color information from the color map.
Baked fur - I flattened the fur-painted model into its UV, and rendered the image.
Diffuse - Final texture consists of a partially transparent base color that can be hidden with Alpha Test, only revealing the hair card textures. This technique helps the cards blend in better with the main body, and is used a lot in Skyrim.
Base Color - No transparency
Normal
UV Map