CGTalk - Need Help with HAIR

HillbillyKing

10-31-2007, 07:00 PM

Ok, I've got a character and I've got a Hair system. Everything is working fine, except I don't know how to attach the hair system to the character. I'm following a dvd tutorial and the hair system turned out fine, but when I try to attach it to the character for Animation...the hair system falls apart. I basically have no idea how to make the hair stay on the character (and keep it's collision and constraints) The dvd only explained setting up the system on a stationary character.
Today is the first time I've attempted hair so any direction will be great

Thanks,

HillbillyKing

11-01-2007, 03:36 PM

I know it may be something very simple, but if anyone knows of a tutorial or help file or anything that I'm just overlooking I'd love to know. I'm trying to figure out nCloth and Hair at the same time. So far the nCloth is going well.

mandark1011

11-01-2007, 03:53 PM

Your hair system should follow deformations etc when your character animates....this may seem really basic but have you set your playback to play every frame?

dynamics rely on a per frame caculation.

Als

11-04-2007, 12:08 PM

When you create hair on geometry, it should follow the geometry by default.
How did you create hair on your character?

Some tutorials:

http://wargasm.fortawesome.com/tutorials/MayaHair/MayaHair.html
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/briggs_chad/maya_hair.php
http://www.3d-ring.org/articles_detail.asp?ArticleID=7
or the same
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/paintfxhair/paintfxhair1.asp
http://digital-tutors.com/digital_tutors/video_details.php?v=792

and
http://www.paultosca.com/varga_hair.html

ALs

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