Fur Artifact Problems

[jsahn]

hello all,
i read the past postings on fur artifact problems, but nothing really helped. i'm using mental ray and am getting black dots with fur specular flickering problem. I tried oversampling (up to max 4 min 2), detail shadow map (sample 2), and doubling the render size, but none of them got rid of the artifacts. furthermore, mental ray takes much longer than software render and actually went out of memory. i have 6 gig of ram.

did anyone find out a solution to this?

thanks a lot!

h.

[fxnurbs]

about the mental ray memory, you v got a parameter in MR globals to change it, in the doc you can find the best proportion of the ram to use.

about the flick, is it an aliasing problem or something in the anim ?

because there is a lot a wierd things because of the uvs, for exemple with blend shaps, you must not active smooth uvs when you smooth your character...

i never have a clean character with fur, and if it not to realistic, i prefer using maya software render.
but but a grass it work well

good luck
jaz

[jsahn]

thanks for your help.
you're right. active UV smooth must be turned off. i also found out from the Maya help that MR/raytracing isn't really good for fur, so it recommends to use the "productionRapidFur" preset on the render global if you want to use MR. i haven't tried it yet, but i'll let you guys know when i get the result.

thanks!