What does it mean transparency in vray hair material and when do you use it?

[luisgamino2]

Hi Konstantin

As the question is very clear

What does it mean transparency in the hair material?

When do you use this option?

Im using vray gpu 5.1


Is this for grass or very thin fur?

And what kind of value should i use?


Thanks in advance

[luisgamino2]

Today i saw a video on youtube about vray hair material and fur with vray gpu, this is with vray for 3d max

Even with the same hair material that is from 10 years ago we the users of vray for sketchup dont have the same material as vray for 3d max.


Where is this for vray sketchup???

The vray hair material for sketchup has less options than vray for 3d max.

What is going on with vray for sketchup???

why we always have less options than 3d max and maya ?

This is becoming for me really stressfull!!!

[luisgamino2]

Another example, do we have that option with vray hair material for sketchup???


Is this possible with vray hair material for sketchup??


I cant belive what i saw...vray hair material so much better for 3d max and maya


Vray for sketchup...Just the basic things.

Very poor development for vray for sketchup

Thanks

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi,

What does it mean transparency in the hair material?

The transparency lets you make the strands semi-transparent.

Even with the same hair material that is from 10 years ago we the users of vray for sketchup dont have the same material as vray for 3d max.

The option you're showing is just a set of presets, available in 3ds Max, where each one changes the values in the material.
We can have something like that but the hair presets you see there make no sense in SketchUp - they are for human hair...

What is going on with vray for sketchup???
why we always have less options than 3d max and maya ?
This is becoming for me really stressfull!!!

As I've explained many times in the past, we are intentionally careful with what we add to our product.
The SketchUp user base is already criticising V-Ray for being too complex and if we just expose all the options available in V-Ray Core, things will get worse.

It is also not true that you always get less in V-Ray for SketchUp compared to Max and Maya.
Some of the features in our integration are not available in Max for example:

• Light Gen
• Render Quality slider
• Cosmos Assets that keep reference to Cosmos
• The UV Tools and the Scene Interaction Tool
• The File Path Editor
• V-Ray Color Picker that supports screen and rendering modes, kelvin temperature, color assistant, etc.
• Camera Auto-focus feature
• Swarm
• Outline Override material
• Advanced material preview
• Material layers
• Material attributes
• Material slots in the Proxy
• Vrmat asset library
• Purge unused assets feature
• Material Random Color render element
• Spline Curve texture
• Marble texture
• Leather texture
• Grid texture
• Bulge texture
• Cloth texture
• etc.

Is this possible with vray hair material for sketchup??

Mapping the strands along their lenth is on our todo list.