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Hairfarm not rendering hair on all geometry...

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:30 pm
by bograt
Hi All,

I have been playing around with the new demo of hairfarm (max 2013) and have run into a frustrating problem.
Maxwell wont render the hair on some bits of geometry even though everything seems to work in the viewport..
Has anyone noticed any similar problems when rendering hair in maxwell?
To be more precise the geometry is a headscan from ten24. I wondered if the problem was caused by bad topology or maybe maxwell could only render hair on quads but I tried deleting most of the scan apart from a few quads with the hair applied and the problem persists, It seems like there is just something very wrong with the geometry to which the hair modifier is applied. I'm stumped...

Re: Hairfarm not rendering hair on all geometry...

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 10:23 pm
by Fernando Tella
Checked normals?

Re: Hairfarm not rendering hair on all geometry...

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:03 am
by raduc
bograt wrote:Hi All,
Maxwell wont render the hair on some bits of geometry even though everything seems to work in the viewport..
Can you send me a sample scene that has this problem at radu@griffinlair.com ?

Re: Hairfarm not rendering hair on all geometry...

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:08 pm
by bograt
Hi Fernando, the normals seem o.k but I agree that it seems like that kind of problem. I am not very experienced in max so I am not so good at troubleshooting.
Thanks

Jules

Re: Hairfarm not rendering hair on all geometry...

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:25 pm
by bograt
Fernando I tried re-importing the mesh and it seems that there were no normals from file so after re-importing using auto it seemed to work.
As usual a school-boy error, thanks for the help!

Re: Hairfarm not rendering hair on all geometry...

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:27 pm
by bograt
And thanks for the offer raduc!

Re: Hairfarm not rendering hair on all geometry...

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:59 pm
by Fernando Tella
I'm glad I could help. :)