Better hair/fur shading and rendering

[vlado]

We are looking into it; there is no particular reason why it should be so slow...

Best regards,
Vlado

[Resin]

Thanks Vlado! Saying that I have been able to get things faster with refined render settings, we are doing some digital double's of horses and I have done the tail and mains in vray with great looking results and a full set of render passes which is awesome!

One pass I am struggling to get is a matte for the hair. I would normally isolate whatever I want using material ID's and colors as to avoid a re-render for that geo, any way I can achieve this? I can re render a separate black/white matte pass but it would be much faster get an all in one solution.

Cheers

[Fredrik Averpil]

Vlado,
Has there been any work on the speed since the few last posts in this thread? (just making sure I've got the right build for our next project)