Diffuse pass rendered, actually my computer is rendering the normal pass for post processed specular and other effects.
I had to start over the hair modelling because I wasn’t happy with the first result but even now I’m not really satisfied with what Hair&fur let me build. I reach the limits of this modifier, as you can see in the top left corner of the picture, unable to put more than 30 segment/hair, I understand this limit for hair dynamic animation (…) but for still image I think we have to find a sneaky way to resolve that problem for long hairs (mine will be photoshop ^^ ).
Anyway the recomb from splines function helped me a lot, better than brush lock by lock as I made for the Alice illustration.
I had to start over the hair modelling because I wasn’t happy with the first result but even now I’m not really satisfied with what Hair&fur let me build. I reach the limits of this modifier, as you can see in the top left corner of the picture, unable to put more than 30 segment/hair, I understand this limit for hair dynamic animation (…) but for still image I think we have to find a sneaky way to resolve that problem for long hairs (mine will be photoshop ^^ ).
Anyway the recomb from splines function helped me a lot, better than brush lock by lock as I made for the Alice illustration.
I wanted to render hair with MrPrime mode for reasons of fast rendering time. I tested buffer mode a lot and discovered it was way faster at some points but very unstable (on my machine),
The + :
¤ Fast render,
¤ Compositing mode in the effect panel, you’re able to render only hair shadows on your geometry, only hairs or no hair at all (?),
¤ you can turn down your photometric lights shadow samples to 2 when rendering hair only, it will speed up the preprocessing time.
The – :
¤ Frequent crashes, even when you push up (to the moon) the cache value,
¤ No tip fade function (vs Mr Prime)
¤ Hair passes will kill your rendering times, depending on the look you want to give to your hair/fur.
NOT understanding at all why the buffer mode crashed my Max scene I turned back to the MrPrime mode, it gives a more natural look for my hairs, with the help of Puppet tool shaders 🙂
Hair render test
All renders should be completed tomorrow, resolution 4961/3508, compositing should be done in ~ 2hours. I hope you’ll like the final image!