We are happy to introduce the latest release and edition of our fur rendering and simulation solution, XFur Studio. XFur Studio 3 - URP Edition.
This asset allows you to add fur to any creature within minutes, styling and grooming the fur right within the Unity Editor. You can easily add physics and weather effects on top of the fur without needing compute shaders or any other advanced features that may limit the hardware targets you support. Extensively tested, refined and with top rated support since 2018, XFur Studio has been a top choice for fur rendering among hundreds of users.
XFur Studio 3 is available in the following editions, to suit a wide range of projects and team configurations:
XFur Studio Core - The essential features (fur rendering & styling within the Unity Editor, no physics, weather FX, nor HDRP support). Per Seat License.
XFur Studio 3 - URP Edition - All the features, URP development only. Per seat license.
XFur Studio 3 - Personal Edition - All the features, all rendering pipelines. Per seat license.
XFur Studio 3 - Team Edition - All the features, all rendering pipelines, with a better license for large teams and companies. Single & Multi Entity Licensing.
It is possible to upgrade at a discounted price from one edition to another one.
XFur Studio 3 for URP now has support for Unity 2023.2. While LTS releases are still preferred, this should be a great help for all of you using the latest Unity releases in URP.
A similar patch for XFur Studio 3 - Personal and Team Editions will be released during the week. We are testing HDRP under Unity 2023 as well, to ensure support across all pipelines in the most recent Unity versions.
Remember that you can get XFur Studio 3 - URP Edition with a 50% off for another week. If you have purchased the Personal Edition of XFur Studio 3, you should be able to grab a copy of the URP Edition for free.
The patch for XFur Studio 3 - Personal and Team Editions to add support for Unity 2023.2 has been released. LTS releases are still preferred, and for best results you need to add the EXPERIMENTAL_BURSTED define to your Player Settings (and have the Burst package added to your project).
We hope this helps, and remember that today is the last day to get XFur Studio URP Edition with a 50% off!
A new patch for XFur Studio 3 - Personal, Team and URP editions adds support for Dynamic Masks, a new module that lets you stack grayscales to remove fur at runtime.
You can use it for example to assign a mask when the character / creature is wearing an outfit, and remove the fur from that area. Removing the mask lets the fur grow again.
You can get XFur Personal, Team and URP on the Asset Store.
A new patch has just been released for the Personal, URP and Team Editions of XFur Studio 3.
Version 3.3.7:
- XFur Studio no longer throws an error in the VFX module when it is disabled then re-enabled. Both Physics and VFX data are correctly cleared and reconstructed when the object or the module are disabled / reenabled.
Additionally, the price to upgrade from XFur Studio 2 to XFur Studio 3 has been greatly reduced, and you should see your new upgrade prices (if you are still on the older versions of our software) when you check our products on the Asset Store.
We hope this helps!
XFur Studio 3: Personal Edition has a 50% off as part of the Echoes of Adventure sale!
You can get it here : XFur Studio 3 - Personal Edition | Particles/Effects | Unity Asset Store
XFur Studio 3, Personal Edition is part of the New Year Sale with a 50% off!
You can get it here: XFur Studio 3 - Personal Edition | Particles/Effects | Unity Asset Store
XFur Studio 4 is now well under development, with plans for its release in Q1 2025.
Upgrade options
XFur Studio 4 will release in four different editions, tailored to different team-sizes and development goals.
- Personal Edition. Sold on a per-seat basis, including all functionality for all rendering pipelines. It will be priced at $100 USD, and all users from XFur Studio 3 - Personal Edition who bought a copy after September 1st, 2024 will receive a free upgrade. All other users of XFur Studio 3 - Personal Edition will receive a 70% discount for the first six months after the launch, and a 50% discount afterwards.
- Team Edition. Sold on a per-entity basis. Includes all functionality for all rendering pipelines. Launch price, $800 USD. The same upgrade discounts explained above apply when upgrading from a Team Edition v3.x to a Team Edition v4.x.
- URP Edition. Sold on a per-seat basis. All functionality included, for URP only. It will be priced at $60 USD. All users of XFur Studio 3 - URP Edition will receive a free upgrade, since the URP edition of XFur Studio 3 was released less than a year ago.
- Core Edition. Limited functionality, Legacy RP and URP only. It will be priced at $30 USD. All users of XFur Studio - Core will be upgraded for free, since the new version will have a lower price than the launch and average price of the current Core Edition.
Users of older releases (XFur Studio 2.x and 1.x) will receive a 60% discount when upgrading to the Personal / Team or URP Editions from the corresponding older versions of these editions, and a 70% discount when upgrading to the Core Edition.
XFur Studio™ 4 will be released very soon. Here is the latest breakdown of some of its major features as we prepare for its release.
- GPU acceleration. Thanks to the use of Vertex Buffers now all the fur rendering process is handled on the GPU. No compute shaders are used, making sure the fur is compatible with a wide range of devices.
- Motion Vector generation in Unity 6 ( URP and HDRP only )
- Automatic Rendering Pipeline detection and resource management. As long as the correct shaders are installed in your project, XFur Studio will load them and set them up automatically.
- Focus on URP. While HDRP and the Built-in pipeline are still fully supported, URP has quickly become the most popular Unity Rendering Pipeline and as such it has been given priority, with much higher quality fur than in previous versions.
- Improved color management. Fur looks much more natural thanks to careful color variation parameters that allow for more variation with fewer textures.
- Baked data. You can now bake the grooming, length, thickness and masking data into the mesh directly to further reduce the memory usage.
- Reworked API for much easier usage. Fully documented and with in-line comments.
- Custom modules support, to easily add new functionality to any point of the fur simulation.
- ShaderGraph based shaders for URP and HDRP, easy to modify and adjust.
- Improved demos, including a high quality Tiger model (in the Personal, Team and URP editions) for learning and experimentation purposes.
- Streamlined and robust workflow, battle tested for over eight years and used by hundreds of developers.
- Single-click upgrade process for all assets and models using XFur Studio 3. Carry over your work and take advantage of all the new features within seconds.
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