25 minutes the new strand rendering in cycles makes the hair rendering a lot faster easier and more funny.
Make a carpet in blender.
By default blender will use an image but we will go for procedural one instead.
All the tips and tricks you need.
As you may be aware by now cycles does support hair rendering since the latest release of blender 2 66.
I am using a basic scene that i quickly set up before i started to create the carpet material.
For architectural visualization artists this means that we can render grass carpets and lots of other stuff with full support of cycles.
The purpose of this tutorial is to highlight the power of blenders built in shaders and procedural textures to create a carpet material to use in your scenes.
How to model and render a carpet in blender cycles.
How to create a realistic carpet author.
The strand rendering is used in this tutorial to show you how to make a realistic looking carpet.
It shows a monkey suzanne a plane camera 3 area lamps and 1 spot lamp.