Fill strands at rendertime?

[Werner]

I'm playing with strands as a replacement for grass or short hair. It gives allot more control over the sculpting or combing.

Is there a way to fill or interpolate between hair strands at render time...as with hair?

[Mathaeus]

In PhilPack, there is a compound called 'Emit Filler Strands' that generates strands on another point cloud, using the first point cloud as a guides. So you can hide the high-resolution point cloud in viewports.
By the way, I've used the 'core' of mentioned compound for my hair stuff, didn't have any problem at all.

[Werner]

Thanks Mathaeus. It worked very well.


Sebastian Kowalski gave me a nice tip on the xsi mailing list as well. You can set the particle display (property under the pointcloud) to
an amount that suites your needs as well.