Filling it out with children

Rendering with only parent strands will produce disappointing, somewhat scary results. Figure 14.68 shows the mother rendered with only parents. Ahem. She might want to wear a hat.

Figure 14.68. What happened to my hair?

Figure 14.68A. Reference image with children enabled

Children are enabled on the Children panel of the Particle buttons. There are two modes of child generation. The first, Particles, creates a certain number of children per parent and clusters the created children around each parent strand. ...

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