Help with rendering hair on a cat

Support Materials and Textures
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I’m trying to render realistic hair on a cat using the hair particle system, but it is not rendering correctly. I’m wondering if someone can show me what I’m doing wrong.

Here is a screen of what the cat looks like:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b75/freekyfrogy/3D/catfur.jpg

and here is the .blend file:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U1CT0L59

I’m having troubles with blender not working correctly on my computer, so it’s difficult to take a screenshot of the settings.

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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can you make a close shot to show what’s wrong
and tell uswhat your find wrong with this

i mean it look like you applied a UV texture to this before adding the hair i think

salutations

3

here are some things you could do see pic

don’t use subsurf higher then level 2
add loop to your mesh if necessary

reduce qty of partic to 400 or 500 and then add children instead
of high amount of particules

that will render a lot faster

also apply some -Z accel to make hair go down a little

then go to n transform panel to add some hair and then comb the hair along the body
see pic here

hope it helps

salutations

4

Thanks for the tips, I’ll try a re-render. Is the higher subsurf irrelevant if you’re using hair because the edges will be covered?

can you make a close shot to show what’s wrong
and tell uswhat your find wrong with thisi mean it look like you applied a UV texture to this before adding the hair i think

I haven’t applied any sort of textures to the model. The problem is that the hair looks patchy and uneven instead of looking natural.

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Try changing the end point rough value. (It’s in the same panel as the children stuff is)