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One more important factor - shading rate for hair. Best to keep it high via the settings in the object properties (I've been using shading rates of between 5 and 7).

Hm, I've been curious about that. The default is 8, which seems inordinately high to me. My logic tells me that high shading rates are going to make the hair blocky and lose detail.

Is your recommendation simply for the sake of render speed, or are you saying such high settings actually help quality somehow (as far as hair goes)?

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