Maya XGen -> actual tubes in render

goekbenjamin

Hey there
Anyone can tell me if mayas xgen hair (preview) can be rendered as actual tubes?
If not the preview, than how can we convert the preview to polygons with actual tubes (which includes tapering)

So i guess converting them into splines or so will loose the tapering...

oglu

export the hair to alembic should work.

goekbenjamin

oglu said:

export the hair to alembic should work.

with that you mean "alembic cache"? If yes, than that did not worked out form me, when i import the alembic file, there are no strands at all.

oglu

what render are you using?

goekbenjamin

oh i am sorry, i try to render hair textures (haircards) with arnold
to get rid of xnormals 

i try to get different maps out of it via AOVs
like
"Z" (depth)
"N" (normals)
so the normals are wrong because it is all "flat"