Shag Hair Please Help???

[Cyrenn]

I'm using Shag Hair for my characters. The only problem is that I want to use Light tracer for the renders. To get that globallumination effect the problem is that the Shag Hair turns completely black. It looks good, but I want it to be able to stay the color I assigned it.

How do I figure this out.

How do I render SHag Hair using Light tracer effectivly.

[Chokin Hazard™]

You must set the shadow type to 'hair shadows' for your shaghair to cast shadows.

[Cyrenn]

The problem that I'm having is when I use Light tracer. The sky light sysem. the hair stays black. And doesn't change to its normal color it was assigned.

[coolcat83]

mabe try giving the hair some self illumination.

[FutureMan]

Have you tried converting the hair to geometry?

I know for 3rd party renderers GI requires the hair to be geometry, otherwise the hair is rendered by the shag/hairfx renderer and is never actually created as geometry for the 3rd party renderer.

You'll need to select Geometry in the Environment>Atmosphere>Effect>Shag:Hair(or HairFx) rollout, and then select the shag/hairfx view object. In the shag/hairfx view object rollout select convert to editable mesh. Then try rendering, it will take longer since it has to create the hair geometry.