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Strange Behaviour – Ambient Occlusion On Hair Material Channel
Hi,
trying to create grass for a garden design, I just discovered a strange behaviour of ambient occlusion shader when applied to, for example, hair density channel.When i move/scale the plane where hair grows, it seems that hair distribution doesn’t refresh..
See these two pictures (plane is also textured with ambient occlusion on color channel with gradient colors from red to blue, just to show that AO map applied to the plane is correct):First:
Second:
Could it be a bug or there is some rule that I am missing??
Bye,Alex
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9 Replies
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what version of C4D? it seems to be working as expected in 15
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Hi,
It’s r14..
Alex -
I’m seeing strange behaviour, if I make it in 14 I get this
if I make it in 15 I get this
If I open the one from 14 in 15 I get the same extra hairs in the centre. You might be too but I’m only seeing them since I am using a transparent cube. Either way if I move the cube the hair is gone where it should be. Something else must be affecting it, can you post the file?
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It’s working fine here in R14 & R15.
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Hi Brian,
I will able to post the file in a few days.. and did you try to move the plane (not the cube) to see if hair behave correctly? -
Ah, you are right I have been moving the cube, when I move the plane I see the same as you, so far I don’t see a way to break that.
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even if I clear the AO from the Density channel apply another effect/surface then put AO back in it still retains the original AO…
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Hi,
yes… it seems the AO map won’t refresh..
Did it work in R15?By the way, I’m attaching the file..
Alex -
it did not work in 15, it appears the hair material stores the channels like density and length internally, just guessing but I think when they were developing hair it made sense to lock them so your hair ‘styling’ didn’t move around. I just tried with a noise in World space and that gets locked too and moves with the plane instead of staying locked to world space. Don’t know a way around it, same thing happens in the Length channel
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