@Artethanks for your reply, I will do it for sure!!

Hello, I don't know if it's the right section of the forum but in the end it's for animation, so I post my question here, correct me if I'm wrong. The question is: I have created an instance of a geometry object with hair module. I want that instance covered also with hair to make a kind of dreadlocks hair look & feel and keep the dynamics setup for animation and finally be able to work with Arnold. + A big whopper and a classic coca cola please I tried mesh wrapping with hair as splines but no success, also as sweep with a spline circle, no success +

I forgot to say: I have disabled the trees (cloners) because it tends to get a bit slow when these are enabled. You can enable them in the 'landscape' tab in the attributes manager. Dito about the grass (hair)

I'd like to thank Igor for setting up this kick ass competition, everyone participating and everyone who voted! Congratulation to all! Great job!

I uploaded the final file to the download section. The .psd file is there as wel, but it needs moderator approval first to be visible. Check it out:

I was learning about the switch node the other day and in one of the tutorials I watched a chap was using the switch to swap out hi and lores geometry via an instance in his set up. Not sure if you can adapt that technique to your needs but its quite simple to use, Im an xpresso beginner and managed it ok. Deck

If this can be done with Xpresso, that would be cool too. Maybe something with Hierarchy Iterator and link list???

Bummer, haha. Should have taken those C++ Python classes in college ;(

Oh I see, I misunderstood you there. Fair enough ! Yep you'd need a script for that I think. CBR

Hi CBR, Thanks for the reply. Maybe I need to clarify: I have a ton of different alembic files that are generated and EACH of those needs to be dragged into its corresponding Mesh Deformer on the Higher res geo.