Ok guys, once more thank you!
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So I think I wasn't really doing any mistake, as Wenneker was saying and as blackshore so nicely shown in his video (thanks man for doing it) to have a proper hair color on a sphere you need a sphere projection:
here is ...

First thing, thank you guys for the help! I appreciate it!

@Jolbertoquini : it seems also you have some clumps that get colored in a non smooth way (i.e. few hair green in a purple clump) this I don't understand. Also in the scene you set up it shows colors also if no texture has been loaded in the ...

Thanks for the hint, I tired different kind of pojections but not nothing changed... : \

Hi Jo,

thank you for testing it, would you be so kind to attach the maya scene for me to download, I can't figure out which connection I am missing.

Thank you and regards,
Mauri

Hi all,

I tried to read about this topic and follow what some have written but here I am with a strange behavior of the latest version of octane's Maya plug in.
I am trying to control the color of the hair with a texture (Imagine something like a carpet with a check board pattern or a zebra one ...

I don't like to complaint and I'm sure you are working hard on important things, but It's kind of unbelievable that this problem is still unsolved since March.The live DB is such an important part of the purchase...it's not like the float texture node not working, it is a big part of the deal ...

Same here, "no node was returned by the server"