“First” render out of Maya using the Xgen. It’s been quite the back and forth and a lot of trial and error. Starting with guides,  scrapping that and switching to groomable splines, scrapping that to try Guides again and then settling with Groomable splines. I subscribed to Jesus Fernandes patreon which helped me a lot, especially with understanding clumps and the modifiers. I’ve yet to figure out how to create a decent color map for the fur, the colors I paint or texture with Mari are not really coming through so I’m just using a plain AiHair Shader for the moment.