Ornatrix hair rendering with Arnold

 
 
 
Posted by:jettamesis
Data created:21 December 2022

I've been having all sorts of inconsistent problems rendering Ornatrix hair using Arnold in C4D r23, r25 and the 2023 versions using the latest versions of Arnold appropriate for those C4D versions, and then I saw this. Does this truly mean then that the only way to render Ornatrix hair in C4D r23 and higher in Arnold is by using the Curves from Strands and Mesh from Strands modifier?


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Which is your version of Ornatrix?

The documentation hasn't been updated with the latest Ornatrix version.

Ornatrix 2.3.9 requires C4DtoA 4.3 and should render with Arnold in C4D R21 to 2023, with the exception of R22 which is not supported by C4DtoA.

Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com

Discord: ikolev

I'm using the latest Ornatrix version 2.3.9 that just got released a few days ago with Arnold 4.5.1 on C4D r25 and 2023 for the Mac. The hair doesn't render at all in the IPR unless I add a Curves from Strands or a Mesh from Strands operator to the stack. Sometimes though, even with the Curves from Strands operator included, the hair doesn't render in the Arnold IPR; so when that happens, I've learned to turn off the Hair from Guides operator, save the file, restart the C4D app, open the file again, turn the Hair from Guides operator back on and then it renders again on the IPR. And yes, I have the Hair Render turned on in my C4D Render Settings too the whole time. When that doesn't work, I go as far as clean out the System and User caches and restart my Mac in order to get it to start rendering in the IPR again. Very time consuming process.