Single strand of hair is infinitely subdivided object?

[Hurricane046]

My task is simple:

Have an animal fur (500k strands) - that's easy, I got that.
Problem is if each default hair strand is this perfectly round circle isn't it INSANELY HEAVY for the renderer? Wouldn't it be better to have it like a triangle shape or something?



I need to optimize the hell out of my fur workflow, and this is one big question mark for me. Thanks for any kind of help!

[aoktar]

Hair is a primitive geometry with just spline and radius. So generates the hair procedurally, nothing for against to standard geometries.

[Hurricane046]

Thanks for the answer aoktar! I'll stick to the default procedural shape then. I've noticed it doesn't even change the Tri: count in the LV, so I guess it's a performance win.

[aoktar]

Yes it does not cost triangles, go for it!