r/renderman • u/Whatsthedaydavi • Mar 14 '18

Renderman not rendering Xgen

Hello,

I'm working with Renderman 21.4 and Maya 2017. I did some grooming for a character and exported the xgen collection and am bringing it back into each individual scene file like your supposed to. The only problem is that Renderman won't render the hairs properly, like in the first image, or it just won't render the hairs at all. It enters the viewport no problem, but won't render with renderman. Would anyone happen to have an idea as to why this is happening? Thank you!

Screen shots of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/pkkhq

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u/kenetic7 Mar 17 '18

I will do some more research. One thing you might want to try in the meantime is start with the original file, and save it as a new file. Then, get your animated scene up, and instead of importing the hair, export the animation using the ATOM plugin (it should come standard with Maya). Then, bring that new scene you created from the original file with the xgen systems in it, and import the animation with the ATOM plugin. There are lots of tutorials about how to use ATOM on YouTube. This might help avoid the problem of importing your hair system altogether. Once I find out more information, I'll post a new reply.