Maya Hair, V-Ray shader

[Metzger]

Is it broke at the moment? I tried to overide the default maya hair shader and it wouldn't render. Also it doesn't look like the default maya hair shader recieves GI.

[t.petrov]

Hi,
Can I ask you to give more details about your problem, because I'm not sure what it is?

/Teodor

[Cruz]

I was experiencing the same thing a week ago.

I had some simulated hair rendering the default maya hair shader. Inside the shader attributes for the hairshape there is a hair color and a material override switch to plug in something different. I had the same results as Metzger and figured it was not supposed to work ???

Is there any way to connect a vray shader to maya's hair? Create PaintFX with a vray material or something?

[vlado]

I had some simulated hair rendering the default maya hair shader. Inside the shader attributes for the hairshape there is a hair color and a material override switch to plug in something different. I had the same results as Metzger and figured it was not supposed to work ???

This is still experimental and does not work for the moment; it will be done a bit later.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Cruz]

http://lesterbanks.com/2011/07/creat...tacle-in-maya/

By converting the particleFx to polys it should be possible to just throw a vray shader on the geometry (?).

[Cruz]

By converting the particleFx to polys it should be possible to just throw a vray shader on the geometry (?).

It is! And I'm getting GREAT results from it now. For some reason I thougt that once you convert to Poly the Mesh would remain in the state you converted in.
But what you know, its still simulating and now I'm adding a vraymat with refraction properties to it and its loads of render fun

One more Maya related question though:

How can I add subdiv. on the polymesh I create from PFX?
Recently its an extruded Triangle with not enough subs along the Hair.

I would prefer a quad and more subs.
Any ideas?