3DS MAX 2018 Hair&Fur problem during rendering

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Hi to all,

i finalize styling on my characters beard, which i make using 3dsmax’s native hair and fur tool.
In the viewport everything looks fine for the whole timeline/animation, since i dont use dynamics and beard just follows the head’s movement.
BUT when i RENDER the animation beard gets destroyed/distorted after some frames… it looks like a strong wind blows from one direction and destroys it…
Then when i stop render, beard looks distorted in the viewport also.

When i render with scanline using “geometry” option selected in the rendering parameters of Hair&Fur, everything works good.
The problem appears when i use the “mr” option selected in the rendering parameters of Hair&Fur and render with Vray.

Any ideas ?

thanks in advance for your precius time.

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Hi,

Could you please send us that scene or a part of it to see if we can replicate this issue here?

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Hi, here is the link. Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life

Try to render the range 132 / 158 and check the beard…

thanks in advance

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Thanks for the scene.

The hair behavior in render and viewport is very strange indeed but the issue is definitely not in our plugin. The combination of Hair&Fur and Point cache seems to break the hair placement for mr prim mode which can be a known issue or new one for 3DS Max I can’t be sure about that. However, baking the animation to keys only for the emitter works better according to my tests so you can try that as a workaround.

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Thanks for your reply. I ll try get rid of point cache…

thanks again.