TIPS AND TRICKS FOR DOING FUR IN MAYA

[arjun]

1. Fur will not render correctly in the orthographic views, you can use mentalray to correct these issues.
2. Fur dosen't recoganize volume lights.
3. Your fur may flicker if the smooth UV's is on in the polysmooth node.
4. Fur will not work properly in the negative scaled camera's.
5. Fur dosen't support fields in rendering.
6. Fur dosen't support image formats in 16 bit or more
7. Maya crashes when fur rendered with large shadow maps, reduce it in fur globals
8. Instanced fur object will not render in Mentalray
9. Better to put motionblur for fur while compositing, try avoiding motionblur in 3d.