Ominous,

You can use the mapped strands option and then use a gradient that fades between colors. Go to the Mapping options for Anything Grows and change UV Mapping to UV Along the Strand. This will make each strand cover the UV space from 0 to 1, but they will all be the same.

Carrara, unfortunately, will not do what you really need which is let you map different gradients over different areas of the wolf (ie. belly gradient is different than back gradient). For that you need to use UVW coordinates which Carrara does not support.

Regards,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara plug-ins

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins