XGen - Arnold Hair Shader

PSok

Hello.
I'm little confusin with using Arnold Render with XGen. 
In Preview/Output I have setup Arnold as default render. 
1 Ask - When I render everything go through Arnold?
2 Ask - When I click button  Tools - "Apply hair shader" - I dont get any shader in hypershade - is it normal?

oglu

do you apply the shader onto the patches..?
the four little squares in the outliner..?

maybe this video will help... its for redshift but its the same workfow for Arnold..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-GS4wLFsU

Iyo

Hey, make sure you have Arnold set as your renderer in your Maya settings.    Make sure you have also saved out your scene somewhere.  Otherwise it wont render.  Its really stupid, but Xgen needs to know where to save the cache, and by saving your scene, it tells it where to save it.

Good luck!  

Xgen is a tricky beast.