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i´m workin on a hammy-like squirrel-character to learn more about hair. i figured out how to work with decals on hair, in this case i´ve decals for the color, the length and the density of the hair... first i had only one hair system, and it looked totally like a stuffed plush toy... then i added a second one, so that i now have a short one with a high density (375) and a long one with low density (25).. looks way better now, but i´m still not satisfied. i still get this kind of pattern, it looks not really natural... i thought about adding a third system, but i doubt my computer can take any more. the image i added took about 1 and a half hours to render (multipass 9, 1280x720 px), has anyone got an idea how i can speed this up? how can i make the hair look more natural? what i did so far to make it look better was: - added a little kinkyness - made it thinner, brighter and 70% transparent to the tip - selected high values for direction and length variation thanks ahead

sorry, solved the problem all by myself for those who are interested... my hair system earlier had two emitters, then i erased one. thing is that a:m didn´t seem to recognize that and mixed things up that weren´t any longer there. i just deleted my hair system completely and created a new one, and tataaaaaa: works!!!

another hair problem: i want to drive the color and the length of my hair system by 2 different decals, or one decal with 2 different images in it, seems to be no difference. driving the color is no problem, works fine. but when i add the second image for the length, it affects the color of the hair too!!!?? i´ve done it all like in talbots hair-tutorial-video, but it won´t work... first i thought it might be a windows-version problem (sometimes i´ve some problems with images there, won´t be displayed etc...), so i tried it in the osx-version too, but same thing. all i do is select "other" in the decal-images "type"-menue, then add a property and select length for my hair system... it doesn´t loose the color of the image that drives the color completely, but it get´s much brighter and a bit mixed up, and it doesnt drive the length!!! couldn´t find any information about that special problem in the forum, searched for hours, would be nice if someone had an advice.... thanx...

thaaaaaaannnx to all!!! i didn´t know that i can flip normals for single patches, now i know better

do hairemitter simply not apply on five-point-patches? how can i solve this problem? help please!!!!! i attatched a screenshot of the rendering an one of the a:m window, that might help to understand. short sytem info: i´m working with a:m 12.0 on a macbook pro 2,33 ghz dual with 4 gig ram, a:m is used on parallesls desktop under windows xp (runs smoother than in osx)!