RFM and fur question

[Prime]

Hello everyone,

While looking for info about renderman on the net I found this commnity and thought this would be a good place to ask a question seeing as you guys have a tutorial about it (Which unfortunately i'm too strapped for cash to purchase from you :( ) you must know a fair amount about it.

The other day i downloaded Pixar's renderman evaluation out of curiousity and see how nice the quality was on it.

I have a character and for eyebrows i used maya's fur system, and to have fur only at the proper areas i used a baldness texture map on the face leaving out the eye brows.

Everything renders nicely with maya software, but when i use renderman it refuses to draw the fur. And it only refuses to draw the fur when the baldness texture map is loaded.

I baked everything when i loaded the map so that's not the issue.

Anyway, i was just wondering if there's something i'm missing, or maybe renderman just doesn't support texture maps for baldness?

Anyway, I'm just asking this out of curiousity really, it was just odd.


Thanks for reading, and i'm waiting anxiously for an answer :)

[sunder]

Hi Prime. Welcome to DT. :)
What is the file format of the texture map?

[Prime]

Hi Prime. Welcome to DT. :)
What is the file format of the texture map?


Um, originally i tried using a jpeg. Then when that wasn't working, i created a targa.

I should also mention that in the maya 3d view, everything appears ok, all the furs are at the correct location according to my texture map, it's only when i render with renderman that no fur gets created.