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title: "Rendering Strands"
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section_path: "Getting Started > Getting Started with Katana > Rendering Strands"
description: "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 …"
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# Rendering Strands

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# Rendering Strands

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.

![Image: image002367.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/r3d/katana/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/image002367.jpg)

To enable the strands rendering, you only need to **change the location type of any “curves” location to “rsstrands”** using AttributeSet node.

![Image: image002366.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/r3d/katana/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/image002366.jpg)

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.

![Image: image002365.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/r3d/katana/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/image002365.jpg)

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.