VRay Hair - How to

[peepo]

Hi

I'm trying to get to grips with how to create fur around a mic using the hair material. This YouTube video is teasing me - but how do I get the options seen?

I can create a VRay Hair material in the shader tree, but where do I get the stuff on item list? (In the video called Boy_hair, and Girl_hair?

Under my item's I can only add VRay Atmospheres and VRay Geometry - neither of which mention anything to with hair.

I can't find anything in the help documentation other than the hair material, but nothing about creating the geometry.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Peepo

[peepo]

...just seen the comment at the bottom of the video - that I need to import alembic hair as a proxy object. I've tried using MODO fur, but VRay does not seem to recognise it.

Does this mean that I need another program to generate hair?

[vladimir.nedev]

You need to enable the Use Render Cache preference, so V-Ray will render MODO's Fur material.
Note that I will make this a per-scene option soon, so it will move to the V-Ray Main tab in the Render item at some point.

Our own V-Ray Fur is not yet ported to V-Ray for MODO, although it is on the list of things to do.



Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[peepo]

Thanks Vladimir! That's very helpful and great to know.

I've only just started to scratch the surface of VRay, and already I think it's really amazing.

[vladimir.nedev]

Note that for the 2017.05.28 nightly build, the global "Use Render Cache" option is removed and replaced by a per-scene render setting.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[BVA]

Note that for the 2017.05.28 nightly build, the global "Use Render Cache" option is removed and replaced by a per-scene render setting.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

This is a good move, thanks. I always forget it on once i used it then after a few crashes i go back and switch it off

[vladimir.nedev]

This is a good move, thanks. I always forget it on once i used it then after a few crashes i go back and switch it off

You can use the sdk.rcache.print command to check if the crash is caused by the Render Cache API and if yes, send a bug report to Foundry so they can fix it.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev