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*I have Lavender hair on Victoria...but it takes ages to render!...i think this is because the hair is transmapped?...or something like that. Without the hair on her head my renders are blazing fast...but as soon as i put the Lavender hair on her head...it takes ages to render!...is there any way to speed up render times with this kind of hair?...any tricks?...special settings?...*

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Thx for viewing.

If you disable 'cast shadows" property for the hair it should render much faster.

Let me guess...

You're using IDL. Right?

Select the hair. Go to the properties window and UNCHECK "light emitter."

Ought to speed things up about 400%.

Unchecking Visible in raytrace usually does it.  However, you did not indicate which Poser version you are using and what settings for light, hair and render.  That information is useful to give you a better diagnosis.

I like to have shadows on my hair(s). It looks weird without them. So I turn off "light emitter" on transmapped items, but leave shadow casting on.

Back when my machine was slower, I would render one scene without the hair, and then render another with the hair, with shadows still on, but with other parts of the scene removed, such as the figure skin textures (except the head and maybe neck, etc, where the hair shadows would show, but minus eyes with reflections) and without clothing and other things that I wouldn't need. Then composite the two renders.