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Setting up hair collisions

Lesson 1: Creating a basic hairstyle

Modifying hair attributes

 

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Rendering the hair

When you modify hair attributes, many of these changes are not visible in the scene view; the Paint Effects hair must be rendered in the Maya Software renderer. In the next steps you render Marion’s hair as it is now, which allows you to see what aspects of the hair need work to make it look more realistic. Before rendering, be sure to set the appropriate Render Settings.

To render Paint Effects hair using the Maya Software renderer

1. Modify the Render Settings for Paint Effects.
   • Click the Render Settings button on the Status Line. The Render Settings window appears.
   • Select Maya Software from the Render using drop-down list.
   • In the Maya Software tab, go to the Paint Effects Rendering Options section and turn on Oversample and Oversample post filter. These help achieve a better look for the Paint Effects rendering. The option Enable stroke rendering is already on by default.
   • Click Close to close the Render Settings window.
2. Before rendering be sure to display the hair system’s Current Position ( Hair > Display > Current Position).
3. Click the Render Current Frame button on the Status Line.

   The hair model is rendered and should look something like the image below.