Summary

Title:Hair not rendering
Category:Crash/Critical
Status:Closed
Posted By:Rectro ( Daniel Ripley )
Date Created:7 December 2018

Problem

Description:

Like the stable release this nightly version 0.0.5.18044 is not rendering hair.  Im using the standard render in R20.

Steps to Reproduce:

Hello Daniel, we are aware of this issue. This will be fixed soon. Thank you.

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hello

Fixed


Attached Files:
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In the new build 0.0.6.18057 where the change log says this issues is fixed, it still does not render hair in both r19 and r20.

 

Thanks, Dan

My Web Site -  ArtStation

I was rendering hair successfully in 0.0.4.17388. Upgraded to 0.0.6.18057 and am experiencing the same thing on R20 OS X.

Hi bbehm,

We are aware of this issue, we are looking into it.

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hi, 
0.0.7.18398 also does not render hair.

Hi Rick,

Please add CurvesFromStrands on top of the hair stack to render the curves as hairs.

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Ahh.. it now works in standard renderer. But not in Redshift. Should it also work in Redshift?

We don´t have office support for Redshift yet. But it should work with the method I mentioned if RS allows to render curves as hairs.

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hey, guys.

I'm really enjoying working with ornatrix, but I've been experiencing trouble rendering the hairs.

The Mesh from Strands modifier doesn't show in a final render, and when I add a Change Width modifier the hairs disappear from the viewport completely.

The Curves from Strands modifier does appear in a picture view render, but it only generates the viewport percentage and not the render count.

I'm currently using v0.1.9.20135 in C4D R20.

I'm still learning my way around this great plugin, so I might just be doing something wrong; Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi,

Are you using Redshift? What version? It's officially suported now snd Ox should work fine with the latest RS version. If that is not the case we may need your scene for testing. Would that be possible? 

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

I was using Cinema 4D's standard renderer for my scene, but I tried Redshift 2.6.4 now, and the Mesh from Strands modifier showed in the RS-renderview, but only with the Change Width modifier deactivated, and only the preview count.

It could be that my scene is somehow corrupted, or my mesh is problematic, so I've included it if you'd like to check it out.

Thanks for your time.

Ok, I couple things first. 

Is there a reason why you are trying to render the hairs as mesh AND curves at the same time? That is not possible because contradics howthe hair stack works:

FurBall on top --> Guides From Mesh generates guides --> Hair From Guides reads the guide data and generates hair --> Change Width reads the hair data and set its width. --> End of the stack.

When you converted the hair to mesh, there is no hair data available for Curves From Strands, because Mesh From Strands is now passing polygon data, no hair data. I hope this is clear enough. Is important to understand how operators work, so thank you for bringing this up Smile.

Also, you don't need to convert the hair to mesh or curves to render with Redshift because we already added native support. Unless you have a reason to convert the hair to mesh or curves.

A different thing is, in the build you are using there is a bug: Redshift needs UVs on the distribution mesh to be able to render the hairs but Ox is not providing them. This is fixed in the latest nightly build (0.1.9.20190 for Windows and Mac). Your scene renders fine without Mesh From Strands or Curves From Stands. See the image below: 

 

Finally a couple notes: While in beta, please be sure to always download the latest nightly build, it helps us a lot if you test your project on the latest nigthly build and report back to us if you find any issues.

Second, you don't have to share your scene publicly, you can send it to Jeordanis.f (at) Ephere . com.

 

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)