ghostship2 posted at 12:21 PM Sun, 17 April 2022 - #4437295

@Y-Phil are you sure that the hair you are using has "cast shadows" checked in the neck actor? I'd check the other zones but it's usually the neck actor. That is what I see in your image: the hair is not casting shadows.

@ghostship2: I had a doubt about the "casting shadows" option, as it's something I never change, and I always let "on".
So I recomputed the pic, using the "V3 blonde", with a small change in your compound node: the strength related to the bump part. I've remarked that this let us control the power of the gloss effect, something that's interesting/useful with the bump of some hair props/characters.

These last weeks, I've started to play with the blackbody node and the temperature of my 3-points lights setup, and that gives this:

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