Vray Hair Mat 3 + nHair + Colour Maps?

[JimmyTeflon]

Hi all! I couldn't figure out how to create a topic in the vray customers section so I'll post this here...

I'm trying to figure out how to control the colour of Maya's nHair using a texture map when using the Vray Hair Mat 3. By this, I mean the colour across the surface, not the colour along the strands of hair. I know Vray Fur can take the colour from the surface it is applied to, but can this be done with nHair and the Vray Hair Mat?

This can be done easily just using nHair's default shader by plugging a texture into the 'Hair Colour' attribute under the 'Shading' tab, but when the vray hair mat is plugging into the Hair shader under 'Extra Vray Attributes' it overrides this.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[yolov]

Try plugging VRayHairSampler.hairColor into the hair material. The hair sampler's hair color output samples the hairSystem's shading color and passes it to the hair material.

[JimmyTeflon]

Aha! That worked perfectly.

Thanks Alex!