Render Hair without cards?

deedoubleyou

I have created some hair for my character using Xgen and am looking to make some renders preferably in Marmoset. I've textured my model in Substance painter and was wondering how I can render the model without the use of hair cards? Hair cards seem like such a pain in the ass and I would like to just render the xgen hairs as seen in the Arnold preview. Is their a way for me to render my model with substance textures with Xgen hair without creating hair cards? This is for the sake of producing nice renders, not creating a game ready model. 

oglu

Just render in Arnold then.

Neox

or unreal, if you want it realtime. vanilla xgen can be moved over to unreal using some scripts, interactive groom can export to alembic out of the box (but misses root UVs)

or convert the hair to geo and render that in marmoset

deedoubleyou

Is bringing substance textures into Maya easy enough? And can I get similar results to what I would get in Marvelous? Its quite a lot of hair ( fur on a jacket) so converting the hair to geo might be too heavy. 

3D4Eva

Yes, lots of people use Substance and Maya together