Hair: Thickness variation on a single hair

#1

Hey folks, I am doing a really detailed eye that will be shown in an extreme close up.
I know that Hash hair has a setting for hair thickness, but I am wondering how to get each one of my individual hairs to decrease in thickness with length.
In other words, have a base that is wide and gradually tapers down to nothing at the end of the hair.
I seem to remember this being done when simulating grass, but I cant find any tutorials.
Thanks in advance

#2

Colin Freeman’s Cooper tutorial now has a great section on v11 hair. Here’s the link: http://www.colins-loft.net/CoopHair.html

You’ll have to scroll down a bit.

#3

Thank you sir, but wasn’t this tutorial on displacement mapping for simulating hair?

What I need is actually a way to have individual hairs decrease in thickness at their tips.

( I tried modelling the eyelash hair, but I believe this may be to patch intensive )

Thanks

#4

The Colin Freeman’s tutorial is updated to v.11.0.

Click the A:M online reference link below.

http://www.hash.com/htmlHelp/v11.0/v110/Hair.htm

Thickness Graph: Using the timeline you can set these properties from 0%-100% along the hair.

#5

Here’s the newer Cooper tute.

http://www.colins-loft.net/new_coop_tutorial/tutorials.html

Scroll down to the new version hair tute.

Kevin

#6

Yeeeessss !! Thanks a million. :buttrock:

#7

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