Hi there,
I'm new to the whole shader scene but I managed to hack and slice a fur shader I found with a Massive Shader Collection. I've added more passes to get rid of that anoying fuzz effect. It looks really nice however it is a major drop on performence so I don't think it would be much use to you guys. But maybe another couple of years down the track it'll be handy

Heres a screenshot:


To run the shader you will need a TGA image of noise (any size, I use 256x256). Save it as noise.tga.

Example:


Heres the script (orignal script by PHeMoX).
Save the following into a fur.fx file:
Code:

---

float4x4 matWorldViewProj;

void mainVS
(
	in float4 position:POSITION,
	in float4 normal:NORMAL,
	in float2 texCoord:TEXCOORD0,
	out float4 pos:POSITION,
	out float2 oT0:TEXCOORD0,
	uniform float offset
)
{
	position.xyz+=normal.xyz*offset;
	//scale vertexposition in normals direction
	//changing the 100 value changes the 'distance' or height of the fur

	pos=mul(position,matWorldViewProj);
	oT0=texCoord*1; //scale for fur density 14--->original comment
	//this is the amount of tiling of the fur texture
}

//Define the material skins which we use;
texture entSkin1;
sampler basemap = sampler_state
{
	texture=(entSkin1);
};

texture mtlSkin1;
sampler noiseMap=sampler_state
{
	texture=(mtlSkin1);
};

texture mtlSkin2;
sampler furmap = sampler_state
{
	texture=(mtlSkin2);
};

// Next the main pixel shader (can't explain much on it though)
float4 mainPS
(
	in float4 nrm:COLOR0,
	in float2 texCoord:TEXCOORD0,
	uniform float alpha
) : COLOR
{
	float4 base=tex2D(basemap,texCoord); //mtlskin1 sampler
	float4 fur=tex2D(furmap,texCoord); //mtlskin2 sampler
	float4 noise=tex2D(noiseMap,texCoord);
	base *= fur; //this is for color fur
	base.a=alpha*noise.rgb; //this is for making it transparent using the noisemap as for, 'how much and where' transparency should be(???)
	return base;
}

// Through these passes, the amount of fur-layers are determined, the more passes, the less fps (and even a changing effect, too much contrast)
technique test1
{
	pass p0
	{
		alphablendenable=true;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(1);
	}

	//fur part:
	pass p1
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.1); //the last numbers gives the height of the layer
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.9); //the last numbers sets the transparency of this pass
	}

	pass p2
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.2);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.9);
	}

	pass p3
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		destBlend=13; //7/9
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.3);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.9);
	}

	pass p4
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.4);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.8);
	}
	
	pass p5
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.5);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.7);
	}
	
	pass p6
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.6);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.6);
	}
	
	pass p7
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.7);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.5);
	}
	
	pass p8
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.8);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.4);
	}
	
	pass p9
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(0.9);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.4);
	}
	
	pass p10
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.4);
	}
	
	pass p11
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.1);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.4);
	}
	pass p12
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.2);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.4);
	}
	pass p13
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.3);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.3);
	}
	pass p14
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.4);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.3);
	}
	pass p15
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.5);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.3);
	}
	pass p16
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.6);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.2);
	}
	pass p17
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.7);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.2);
	}
	pass p18
	{
		AlphaBlendEnable=true;
		zWriteEnable = True;
		destBlend=13;
		
		VertexShader=compile vs_1_1 mainVS(1.8);
		PixelShader=compile ps_1_4 mainPS(0.1);
	}
}

---

Add this to your script:

Code:

---

// call local images
bmap noise_bmap = <noise.tga>;
bmap color_bmap = <noise.tga>;

material mtl_fur
{
	skin1 = noise_bmap;
	skin2 = color_bmap;
	
	effect = "fur.fx";
}

---

Should work. If there are any problems let me know and I'll try my best to help you out

Cheers
-Bright