Render Yeti fur as flat planes for grass?

[jbvfx]

Hi,

Is there any way to control the shape of fur coming from Yeti? Right now it renders as tubes. I would like it to render more like planes to get it to look like grass.

Thanks!

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Jacob

[vlado]

The hair strands can render as either tubes or flat ribbons that always face the camera (depending on the material you use for them); if you want more control, you will need to use actual geometry.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bazuka]

amigo here is a quick test with yeti and hair3mtl

GI, directlight

[Karol.Osinski]

Hey, sorry for digging out the old thread, I am working on the artificial grass and this is my results so far, please ignore the color difference. Is this correct shape difference between V-Ray MTL and NEXT HairMTL. I am trying to achive the straight, rectangular shape like on the reference. I tried with thickness texture but it applied to WHOLE grass objects not to individual blades.

[yolov]

To get something that's similar to the picture, it would be best to use actual geometry.
Otherwise, generally yes - that's what you will get with the standard VRayMtl vs the HairMtl (Hair3mtl, not hairNextMtl, as hairNextmtl will always shade the strands as tubes).