Vavavoom hair rendering question

jdavison67

When I render this product I only get the hair cap...no hair, also it only shows a preview in texture based mode.

What am I missing here? How do I get the hair to render?

jd

Leana

That's dForce hair, so by default it won't show in Iray preview to save resources.

If it also doesn't show in a full render, check which tool is currently selected: if you have selected a tool like geometry editor, joint editor or mesh grabber then dForce hair won't render.

Matt_Castle

Strand based hairs like this generate an extremely large amount of geometry that is very poorly optimised for an interactive viewport, so by default they will only render in a final render, not any of the viewport options.

One can increase their viewport tesselation and turn on the various other preview options that I forget what they're called in order to make them visible in the viewport, but this isn't particularly advised, even with absolutely top-end hardware. It is best, instead, to use a new window render to check how they look.

chevybabe25

All of the above :)

Check and make sure your fun tools like mesh grabber, geometry editor, etc are not selected. 

By default, that hair will not show in the preview render.  If you have a lower-end computer,  you should render it the old-fashioned way.  By using the render button at the top of the screen.

If you have a decent computer, I provide settings to turn the hair on in the viewer:  

• Preview ON

Give the computer a  few minutes to think, the hair will look different in the viewport and will now render in the preview render. To turn it off use the Preview OFF option. 

Enjoy :)