Vray Hair Next Material and stylised shading

V-Ray V-Ray for Maya Issues
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Hi,

I am in the process of trying to setup a stylized fur shading in maya vray with hair next material.

Unfortunately I struggel to keep the color of the fur close enough to the initial design (different very extremely vivid colors) while keeping it realistic at the same time.
->The vray hair material renders much darker than the underlying vray material
Also when i set Diffuse to 1 with my diffuse texture plugged in the colors match the texture color obviously but i completely loose the realism.
So i have to reduce diffuse but while doing this the color darkens more…

Also wondering what the difference between dye and diffuse channel is and what would work better for a stylized fur shading.

I guess i am trying to use the hair material to render a way its not intended to…

any hints appreciated

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For some reason my reflection didnt receive any colors resulting in a washed out look on the fur.maybe a bug or some Setting i messen up.
Now it seems to work but it still is tricky to make the vraymaterial and Hair Next material to align the way i need it.