Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> Okay, perhaps I wrongly assumed "silverback" meant "old monkey."
> 
> But the hair doesn't look like that on an old monkey.  Perhaps it needs
> specular.
> 
> 

Now that I have a book to look at, the hair seems to vary a lot, even 
between individuals in a species.  The source photo I was using did seem 
to show pretty scraggy hair, which I took to mean "old" also.  Other 
chimps have more tuffed hair, in others its softer, more aligned in 
waves.  None look quite as wiry as in my picture though.

I was trying to get a wavy effect by distorting the hairs based on a 
smooth pattern like bozo.  But it didn't work as expected.  I think I 
may be amplifying the distortion to much.  Indeed, I added reflection, 
but left the specular at default, it was late.

I adopted your three-sided, segmented mesh technique to build the hair. 
  But I based each hair individually on a spline.  This alllows me to 
start with a specific root point, and a spedific end point.  Some 
splines just behave in a wacky way though.  That is the main reason that 
the segmenting sometimes shows.  Hopefully on my next pass I can improve 
all this.  It's a slow process because I try to move forward on each 
problem in turn. Refine the modelling.  Then the uv texture mapping, 
then the hair generation, then the lighting vs finish, then the eyes, 
etc.  I am also hoping to integrate your hair macros in the process also.

-Jim

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