thoennes posted at 8:32AM Wed, 03 March 2021 - #4414156

Any advantage of one shader over the other? BB's gives great results (assuming the trans map is good). But it's hard on a CPU render (Mac), even with 18 cores grinding away. It helps when I drop the bucket size such that all the cores can work on the hair at the same time. If it's too large, one core goes for the entire hair area, while the others quickly finish the rest of the image.

I think the P12 one renders faster. I like the way it looks better. The thing is, the bb shader doesn't look right in P12, it creates blocky sections all through the hair cards - I believe it's something about the specular nodes that p12 Superfly can't read anymore, as it's gotten closer to Blender Cycles.

Meanwhile, something in the nodes I use for my P12 shaders can't be read in P12 - they render greyish.

So yeah, in the case of my hairstyles, it only boils down to which Poser you're on.

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