Re: Align Strand segments

2015-09-30 Thread Rob Chapman
well yes thats what I meant, by placing the shapes on the strands by topo then you have more control. otherwise if its down to the render then is hard to see if anything is wrong until later. perhaps there is a way to 'massage' the existing strands angles before sent to render but is hard to repr

Re: Align Strand segments

2015-09-30 Thread Olivier Jeannel
Hey Rob :) Well, in viewport they are just ordinary strands (like a curve or a hair). I do generate a geometry with PLND Deform By Strand, but that's a shame because it's much heavier, and loose the power of putting 2000 strands if desired :/ On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Rob Chapman wrote:

Re: Align Strand segments

2015-09-30 Thread Rob Chapman
clutching at straws.. but if they are good in viewport and not at render time could you not attempt to bake them into topology first? On 30 September 2015 at 09:16, Olivier Jeannel wrote: > Will check the rotation idea, although I think I already checked while > looking for the soluton in distr

Re: Align Strand segments

2015-09-30 Thread Olivier Jeannel
Will check the rotation idea, although I think I already checked while looking for the soluton in distress. The temporary solution was to use PLND Deform By Strands with a grid, but it's slow and I have many many strands in the scene, hopefully not all of them have bugs (or noticeable bug). And I'm

Re: Align Strand segments

2015-09-29 Thread Nono
Yes already saw that a couple of times... Sadly I think it's a renderer specific problem of the strand orientation. Just to check, switch to mental Ray and you will see something different. Giving a small rotation on a second axis should fix the problems. Le mer. 30 sept. 2015 à 01:09, Sven Constab

RE: Align Strand segments

2015-09-29 Thread Sven Constable
Are you using mental ray? If so, try switching from scanline mode to raytrace for primary rays (optimization tab). A shot in the dark though… sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Olivier Jeannel Sent: Tuesday, Sep