Quote - I rendered a scene with the Victoria 5 Elite Pony Tail and whoah, do I have a problem.  It looks like pieces of plastic stuck on her head. It's horrible.  The promos show a pretty shiny soft hairdo.  The hair in my render looks like you could chip bricks with it.  Does anyone know what might be the problem? Oh, I did work on this in PS to try to make it look more normal... still doesn't though.

 

Was she using DoctorJellybean's 'Special Hair Treatment'?

What settings did you use on the hair prop?

Just as a general starting point, try setting the skullcap to glossy, around 7000 +/- 500, then the remainder of the 'strand' pieces to glossy and check the translucent box.

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