03 ‐ Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Q - My Alpha Texture doesn't seem to be working correctly with the Baking Process

• A - Please make sure if you are using a greyscale for the alpha texture, that it is saved as such. If it is an RGBA image format with greyscale pixels, then the baking engine will use the alpha channel of that file, which is likely fully opaque.

Q - I don't seem to get a similar patterns to what you have presented on the Wiki Page.

• A - Make sure you turn on backface-culling in the hair material in blender. Usually the spotty patches below is from the wrong side of the flipped normal mesh. That side never get rendered. Example with Backface Culling not active in blender.

Now below with backface culling active: