Okay, cheers for the answers man. 
I can’t figure out how to make those pictures viewable, they’re in simple
brackets. My heightmaps are pretty blurry, rarely with any fully white/black areas and looks pretty smudged like a noise mask. I’ll go scouting for a better set of textures, hopefully that solves it for me. Again, thanks a lot! If you don’t mind, I’ll take you up on the offer and PM you when I stumble across another hair-tearing issue hehe!