Need help rendering strands

[Pete]

Hi there,

Just wondering if anyone knows what the problem is here?
My strands wont render...




Thanks
Pete

[Rork]

If you want trails,you still have to connect a 'generate strand trails' node. Be sure to set the max.# of segments to a high'ish number.
Or maybe I'm wrong and you want something else.

rob

[Pete]

oh cool thanks!

[Pete]

Hey I just thought I'd post this for anyone who is stuck on the same issue. Using generate strand trails wasn't working for me but I found a solution, In 'Emit Strands" compound there is this node -
And that has the option to "Loft Shape Along Strand" If you check that on you start getting some results. I have no idea why they didn't expose that from the start but I guess nowadays I'm more used to digging around in these things to get things working.

Apparently there's a way to render strands using the hair shader but I haven't figured that one out yet...

[Pete]

Yeay! Just thought I'd Share some of my findings with this whole strand rendering business!
I haven't managed to control the thickness over the length yet...

Shape - Cone


Shape - Cube


Shape - Cylinder


Shape - Blob
(bit of a longer render time)


Shape - Disc


Shape - Segment


Shape - Segment
Rendered with HAIR SHADING Material (Requires Segment and you have to plug a ShapeSizeAbsolute node into the emit, check this page for more info http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsi ... 777394.htm)





http://www.naffupdate.com/forumfiles/HairBall_Test.emdl - Here's the model file if anyone's interested