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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

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

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?

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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..
ten

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

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?

yes, should put the hair effect before octane render

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

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

ten