Howdy , Ive been working on body hair for mike for about 4 weeks now. ive been through many programs and techniques. but i find that Photoshop it best for the base file, i also use Painter for making the swatches for all the hair patterns i use. ..... 1st i use 4000x4000 base textures. i create a pallete of hair "patterns" for use in photoshop in 640x480 and paint them (the pattern sets) on in many many layers.layers and resolution is the key for making good looking hair. i have a "dial a bear" photoshop doc at 250+ megs id love to release but at that size its difficult at best to download. so ill be releasing sets of matched hi rez body's with heads in the not too distant future. ill post some on my test renders. hope that helps some. Happy Rendering, JWKub