hair won't render

[jnord71]

I updated to AM v18 today. Before this I was using v14 so there is no doubt many changes for me. I have opened an existing project into the new version and found I can't get the hair on the model to render. When the hair is turned on I see it on the model, but it disappears when I render. I've gone through all the setting in the options and done some searching in the forum, but haven't found a solution. Does anyone have an idea what setting I have wrong? Or is it possibly a glitch? It seems unlikely to me to be a glitch so I'm hoping someone can find a setting I have wrong. I've attached the project in hopes someone can find the problem. Thank you for your help.

 

jeff

jeff_model_embedded.prj

[Rodney]

Hi Jeff,

It's great to see you again.

 

The first thing that comes to mind is that you might have your render setting set to render with options from your Camera and are changing the settings in the Render Panel instead.

The thing to check here would be the setting under Tools/Options on the Render Panel where it gives us the option to use "This dialogue" or "The Camera".

If yours is set to 'The Camera' then that's a likely culprit and you can either set it to "This Dialogue" or adjust the settings in your camera.

If not we'll have to dig further to find out what is going on.

[mtpeak2]

Set the transparency to 0% in each hair emitter for each hair material. The hair is taking on the transparency of the scalp groups.

[jnord71]

Thank you both for your help. Setting the transparency for the hair emitter to 0 did end up being the fix. I didn't have the problem in v14. It is good to know for the future. Again, I appreciate both of your help. I spent a couple hours last night trying different things to get it to work right.

 

jeff