i have sent you the  .mesh and .blend file. Thanks for the help

if you want you can send me your mesh file and the texture by email,
or at least the hair if you don't want to send the full object
(if you can also send the blend file it's good).

i have tried all day to get the hair strands in Maratis maybe i am doing something wrong but i done as was suggested and i am still having a problem

Help would be a hugely appreciated

I will try your suggestion and let you know how i got on

Thank again

there is probably a problem in your material (Maratis doesn't use exactly the same material properties as Blender)
be sure to check this tutorial : http://www.maratis3d.org/?p=277

But basically for hair strands, Maratis will use the alpha channel of the diffuse texture (use a png or tga with alpha channel),
be sure that the "alpha" value in the material is 1 and not 0.

For hair I suggest to use black and white alpha (no grey values) and no blending,
otherwise, if you really wants grey-value alpha, be sure to select the "alpha" blendMode,
but in this case the z-test will be disabled.

When i try to export it as .mesh file and load it into maratis the hair strands do not appear does maratis support the hair strand in blender ?

If so can you help me try to get it working please.