Hair and fur question - How to create flat hairstrands?

[markus]

Hi! I'm trying to create some X-mas decorations. For this I have created a string with hair and fur modifier on it. In the viewport it looks exactly like the kind of geometry I want to achieve (curved planes), but when I render (in V-ray) I get tubes. If I convert it to geometry I also get tubes. I don't want spaghetti, but glitter. How can I get the same geomerty as the preview in the viewport? Is there a setting somewhere for this? can I collapse the preview geometry?

[-niels-]

I did the same kind of thing recently with some funny little Christmas trees.

Difference being that i use Arnold, but i also got the question how i did that.

After some digging around i found there was a setting for the Arnold renderer on how to display the hair:

Maybe V-Ray has a similar setting somewhere??

[markus]

Thanks for the tip! Cool Xmas trees! I couldn’t find a similar setting for V-ray The mr primitive option only seems to generate spaghetti geometry. Great for hair, but not for ribbons. I asked in the Chaosgroup forums. Maybe someone will know there.