That's optimistic - by looking on previous implementation, like built in Renderman connection, no hope, I'm afraid. This one has no support for RMan hair primitive, through the years. Shaders are just a plain emulation of about 15 years old shading 'model'. On top of bad story, I have feeling I'm o...

…I've been going through some of the compounds I've built over the years that do some very 'project specific' effects and when I investigate doing any of them in Maya or Max the answers that come back vary from "impossible" to "very difficult" and the ones that are possible will...

I asked the same question a few weeks ago and I was pleasantly suprised http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=30952 All of the examples on this thread are perfectly possible with Cinema 4D. The Hair system is one of the most robust ones inside the ...

OK, I'll go first! :) I use softimage strands in a lot of my projects. I see nothing that even resembles strands in Maya or 3DS Max. Is it something unique to Softimage or is there another piece of software that offers something similar? Is there any info out there which briefly explains what stran...