hair shader: Getting good looking hair

[ndeboar]

Hey,

I've been testing the hair shader, and I'm not getting results I would expect.



The specular is running vertically, when I would expect it to run horizontally.

I'm trying to get something like this:


Is there a way to adjust this?

BTW: Does the shader support scalp color/tip/base maps?

Totally under stand this is all still in beta, It would just make our pipeline simpler if we can do all our hair/fur renders in vray (currently deffering to renderman)

Maya 2011
Shave and Haircut
Vray

[joconnell]

You'll have to model the shape of the hair to have the same curvature as it does in the photo to get it to run horizontally - It's all dependant on the shape of the light that the hair is reflecting, and the parts of the hair that are angled towards the light correctly.

[ndeboar]

Cheers jo, that makes sense :P

Any ideas about tip/base/over all color maps?

[joconnell]

I haven't dug into it yet unfortunately - It was announced a day after I'd finished a project with cg foxes so it would have been handy - not sure when I'll get around to fur again tbh :/