How to hide hair from camera?

[Brian Jones]

if you render the hair as geometry (Hair/Generate tab) that can be hidden with a Compositing tag. You’d have to re-texture the hair… don’t know any other way as Hair is it’s own renderer… (but would be welcome to hear if it’s possible)

[Brian Jones]

interesting. I changed hair to Flat to check the compositing tag then was testing the quality of reflected hair in the mirror and changed it back to “None” (normal hair) and now it still obeys the Compositing tag and reflects but isn’t seen by camera… don’t know if that’s reliable

[Brian Jones]

ah, that was in Physical render in Standard the hair is visible again

[Ss So]

hmm …thanks so much.. yeah i tried that too and it slows down my computer a lot. not sure how to re-texture the hair either :/

[Brian Jones]

yeah, slower as geometry definitely – quickest would be Flat if that look works for you. Try Physical render (if you have it) as it works with that as well, perhaps just as slow but no problems re-texturing. If you don’t it’s not impossible (though I haven’t done it with hair – more with grass) – Specular has to be right, otherwise it would just be a matter of testing

[Ss So]

Thank you so much for your replies