x-particles and hair help

[joshuamichie]

Hey everyone,

I've spent the better part of the day hunting for resources concerning c4d octane and hair + x-particles. For the life of me I can't render hair and I have no idea what I'm missing. I can't find it in the manual, yet I'm seeing great renders on the forum. Can anyone point to any resources where I can figure out how to render hair?

I want to use x-particles and hair together, instead of using sweep nurbs. Nurbing slows the machine down to a standstill, but hair works great....Just can't see the hair when rendering in octane.

Thanks!

JM

[aoktar]

2.02 has manual for hair and same 2.0 samples for hair. it's enough to start it

http://render.otoy.com/customerdownload ... amples.zip

[grain]

Hi, I might have missed something in the example files but these all deal with Hair object based rendering. The original poster was talking about x-particles and trails, and I'm on a project now where I'm using pCache objects with the hair renderer.

Does anyone have an example of how you would use octane with a tracer object, x-particles trail or pCache generated spline?

[mate]

+1

[ten]

All you need to do is fire up xp emitter with a trail object, then simulate hair object in c4d and add the trail to the hair, then play with hair texture and object settings.

I recommend in hair guides changing the root to spline guides.

Here is a small example file..

xp_oct_hair.zip

xpocthair

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ten

[grain]

Ah! That's a great example, man, I wish I had this about 5 hours ago. Thanks a lot for that, very cool.

[SephirothNP]

Thanks for the example file posting ten- extremely helpful!

Quick question on this- this renders perfectly in the Octane LiveViewer; however, I can't seem to render Hair to the picture viewer with Octane as the render engine. Am I doing something incorrectly, or does this only work in the LiveViewer?

[aoktar]

yes, should put the hair effect before octane render

[SephirothNP]

Thanks Ahmet!!! This is unbelievably cool!!!

[ten]

Its pretty cool huh? I personally am looking forward to Ahmet adding new objects to choose from as particles in Octane wink wink

ten