I'm getting banding in the forehead with the new hair. It is so cool!(The hair, not the banding in the forehead. Kozaburo you rock!) I've rendered in both Firefly and the Poser 4 Renderer. I've even scaled up the hair a percentage point to see if the banding goes away. I get this with both the separate hair figure in the FIGURESKozaburo and the HAIRKozaburo folders. I've made sure I picked right hair type (V3) to fir the model. (This is Jordan BTW)

Any suggestions?

Check that Transparency and Transparency edge are both 100%. If it's not that, then I really don't know.

I second SamTherapy's suggestion. I've seen this before with other hair, though, but only in C4D. One other idea is to check the map size on your shadow maps. If it's low (and by looking at the rest of your pic, it doesn't seem low) you'll get weird effects through transparency (looks like dirt/banding). Finally, I'm not familiar with the model itself, but if it's like other hair there will be a material zone called "skull cap" or something. Not only do you need to check that it's transparency is 100%, but you also have to make sure no color has been applied to the skull cap material, other than white. Please somebody speak up if I'm totally off base! Hope this helps, Jack

Are you rendering in P5?? Theres a note on the site. You have to attach the displacement node to the image map and set it to 0.001

Hate to add to your load but I think a RayTrace light will punch right though that(This will make other problems). If THAT doesn't wrk then I think there is a shorten inner bang option in dials.

Check the transparency fall off and make sure that is at 0 instead of 0.6. I have had some slight show-through on some trans maps if the fall-of is anything other than 0.

I think it's a shadow. I tried to reproduce the effect, and couldn't do it with transparency settings. (You get a sharp line, much farther up, not bands across the whole forehead.)

However, moving a light so that it was overhead produced lines. Turn off "cast shadows," and it's gone.

Try increasing the size of your shadow map on the light that's overhead. I tried four times the default size, and the lines vanished. Smaller might work, though - didn't try it.

Message edited on: 07/26/2004 22:06

Thanks, randym77. I'll check that out. **** a few renders later**** T'was the shadows. Thank you randym77 and all who posted.

Image to show. Thanks again.