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  • Hair showing up in render even if display tag visibility set to zero

    Posted by Chris Wedding on July 23, 2017 at 7:37 pm

    Help! I can’t figure out how to control the visibility of a hair object. It will render even if a direct display tag is set to zero visibility or a parent display tag is set to zero. I can’t figure out why. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks!

    Chris Wedding replied 9 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jim Scott

    July 23, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    From the C4D Help file:

    Hair Limitations

    Hair has the following limitations:

    Hair is a volumetric effect when the Standard Renderer is used, which means it offers flawed results when combined with other volumetric effects such as PyroCluster, volumetric Clouds in Advanced Render (Physical Sky), etc.

    When used in conjunction with the Physical Renderer, you will not be able to take full advantage of the complete spectrum of Hair parameters (see Hair and the Physical Renderer).

    Photon Caustics does not work with Hair.

    Infinite light sources will be treated as point lights when casting shadows.

    The Cinema 4D Display tag’s visibility does not work in conjunction with HAIR.

    All of these limitations do not apply if you render the hair as polygons (render time and memory requirements will rise sharply). So, how is this done? Simply select a Hair type from the Type menu in the Hair object’s Generate tab. Before you do so, don’t forget to reduce the number of actual hairs.

  • Chris Wedding

    July 23, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    Thank you!

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