used stuff like this a lot to do grassy fields and tbh we didn’t always have it generate the geo inside mantra, you can switch the hairgen to just creating standard SOPs geo. obvi the IFDs got massive that way, but if you’re rendering from Indie direct to mantra i’m not sure there’s much speed or memory improvement having it generate inside mantra vs. baked inside H and then streaming the geo to mantra… 100 curves with 300k render-time hairs here streamable.com/m6km2
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