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Hair object renders differently in preview and picture viewer
Hello! I am trying to render a surface that would look like fur. When I render my scene in the preview, it looks just as I want it, but when I render it to the picture viewer, the result is completely different. It looks very sharp, unrealistic and the shadows are missing. Do you have any ideas why this is happening? Additionally, I would appreciate some tips, because I still did not figure out how to keep hair from intersecting the little white rectangle.
I also attached the screenshot of my project. (Sorry that my Cinema is in Czech.)Thank you for your help!
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the preview (Editor) render is different (faster) than the picture viewer render. To make it faster some things are assumed or missed or there are settings (ie. in the SubD/Metaball objects there are settings for Editor or Renderer – by default always lower for editor). Ddynamics/particles are always something to be cautious with as well – in the Editor the render always starts without calculating particle/dynamic movement. If you jump around in the timeline dynamics are either ignored or make a best guess but if you render in the picture viewer it always runs the calculations from the start first to arrive at a frame (which is why the editor doesn’t do “Preparing…” for dynamics but the Picture Viewer does). Hair is another dynamics system, it’s been a while since I did much hair so I don’t remember where the problem lies except to say that you have to do Picture Viewer renders to test and never rely solely on the Editor renders until you want to do a final whenever any dynamics etc are involved
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Thank you for your response. I remember I played hair dynamics animation before, maybe Cinema somehow remembered it even though I have deleted the animation. Also, I copied everything into new document and now it renders just fine.
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