I have been recently been testing out the Ornatrix Beta for C4D. This looks like a super promising tool that gives C4D a much needed boost in hair/grooming tools. Are there plans for supporting the Arnold render for C4D. I noticed currently that it does not work natively and adding the Curves from Strands does not seem to help either.
Yes, Arnold support is planed. Some users have been able to make it work by converting the hair to curves and rendering the curves as hairs using Arnold, I think you have to assing the Arnold hair shader as well.