Whats the best technique to use a Vray Material on Maya Hair? My guess would be to work with NURBS Curves instead of PFX + NURBS. Then convert to Polymesh and drop a vray material on it like any other object? I’d like be able to tune my material further, eventhough the random sat/col/val setting…

Well, in the latest nightly builds, you can add V-Ray attributes to the hair that allow you to assign a custom material to it. Best regards, Vlado

[image] General useful links Well, in the latest nightly builds, you can add V-Ray attributes to the hair that allow you to assign a custom material to it. Unfortunately this is not quite true. At the moment the only material that could be attached to HairSystem is VRayMtlHair (which is under…

I tried adding a render curve attribute to the outpurcurveshape. It doesnt seem to work, atleast when I assign a material and render. An ordinary CV Curve doesnt do it either.

[image] V-Ray & Rhino 5 WIP 64 bit I tried adding a render curve attribute to the outpurcurveshape. It doesnt seem to work, atleast when I assign a material and render. An ordinary CV Curve doesnt do it either. This was a bug in the initial release; it has been fixed since in the nightly/stab…

Ah okay, This is for a commercial project though. So I guess I wont be using nightly builds to ensure stability and compatibility.

Cruz, There are two kind of night builds: 1. Builds with all the new developments since 2.0, they are true night builds and could have stability problems 2. Builds with fixes for the critical bugs found after the release of 2.0, they are what Vlado referred as stable builds (stable night builds). …

Teodor, thanks for that info :slight_smile: I will consider it Side Question: Will I also have to update the Linux nodes on our farm to ensure DR will still work?

[image] Vray Rhino vs Vray SketchUp Side Question: Will I also have to update the Linux nodes on our farm to ensure DR will still work? Yep. This can be automated to some extent though. Best regards, Vlado

Using Maya hair as Geometry with VRay Mat/ Random RGB

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t.petrov July 20, 2011, 8:20am 3

Unfortunately this is not quite true.
At the moment the only material that could be attached to HairSystem is VRayMtlHair (which is under development and broken at the moment).

You can set per follicle/clump colour and then blend that colour with the main colour

/Teodor

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