How to Render Hair with Cycles
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange users point people to it as the go-to walkthrough for rendering hair in Cycles, both in answers and when asking about hair problems.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2013 to 2015.
What it is
A 2013 tutorial by Andrew Price of Blender Guru showing how to use the then-new strand rendering for hair in Cycles. It walks through setting up particle hair and shading it, and comes with a text write-up and a downloadable .blend file.
What people said
Strong rec Mörkö · 2015-08 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Highlights with hair”
If you use Cycles, there is a node called Hair Info. You can use the intercept value (Gives a gradient where the root of the hair is black and tip is white) from it to achieve a gradient along the length of the hair. You could for example run it through a ColorRamp. (For more info on hair rendering, see the Wiki here: [LINK] ). There is also an excellent video on hair rendering by Andrew Price, see here: [this video] .
Cites Nikki Park · 2013-09 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Hair won't render in cycles?”
I just followed Andrew Price's video tutorial [this video] on how to render hair in cycles, and I have followed every single direction, but no hair gets rendered. Is something not enabled or activated? It is almost like it is trying to render with the particles grit there. [LINK] [LINK] Here is the blend file [LINK] .
Cites Ashesh Shrestha · 2014-07 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Make hair in Blender Internal, but render in Cycle, realistic skin in blender render?”
Even though I have made a character and applied material and some lightning effect, I still can't get somewhat skinny color - somewhat red as like real one. In this video by Andrew Price [this video] , the object is not so real, but when rendered it gives very realistic image! And I want to make hair for my character. I found every one using Cycles. But when I do Cycles render it takes forever, about half an hour for an image. So I want to make hair in Cycles and later choose Blender Internal. What will happen if I do so?