The Redshift for Katana plugin can render the “ curves” type locations as Redshift strands . The strands are built by Redshift at render time using real polygonal meshes, from tubes to strips.
To enable the strands rendering, you only need to change the location type of any “curves” location to “rsstrands” using AttributeSet node.
You have several options to control the strands building parameters available in the RedshiftObjectSettings node.
- Strand geometric type.
- The maximum number of tessellation subdivisions.
- The default scale, used if the object doesn’t have a valid scale attribute.
- Global scale multiplier.
- A switch to enable the screen-space adaptive tessellation.
The plugin extracts automatically a couple of arbitrary float point attributes that can be used to control the strands geometry at point level: “rotation” and “scale”. The st maps and other arbitrary point, face or location attributes can be also used with the strands objects.