Quote - The density for this was only 200 per square inch with root 1.0 and tip .4. Like you I find that pushing for ever finer hair results in unrealistic renders.

And that's just a single hair group in your last example, right? What does Poser say the total propogated hair density is for that group?

 

PoserPro2014(Sr4), Win7 x64, display units set to inches.

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