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This is a continuation a discusion that began in the "My first effort with Carrara" post by martian manhunter yesterday.

The attached image is a quick and dirty comparison of quality and time using Poser6 and C5 with Transposer to render Jessi with danamic hair. I used the default lighting in P6, and reduced the light intensity for each light by 20%, and turning on soft shadows for each light after I imported the scene into CS. I modified the default hair setting for hair density, tip width, root width, and Clumpiness to the values shown in the image below.

Better results could be achieved by reducing the strand size more, and increasing the hair density. if you campare the above image with the image in the earlier thread, you can see an obvious improvement in the quality of the hair in CS5. This is due to the reduction of strand size and clumpiness used in the earlier render.

Opera - the times for each render may answer you questions about using Carrara for animations with dynamic hair. You amy be able to reduce the render times in CS by tweaking the hair settings more. You could definitely beat P6 render times by a great deal using "shadow buffer" instead of raytracing on each light. I wasn't able to get very good results though, and have run out of expendable time for the day. Good luck!

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