nHair not cnnected to poly mesh Maya 2014

#1

I have a model that I have created Hair for by using EP curves as guides and adding them to a hair system. I created the hair on the poly mesh. Now I am trying to get the hair to move with the mesh when I try to animate it. How would I go about doing this? What do I connect/parent/constrain to what? Thanks.

#2

In general when you do “make curves dynamic” also have the mesh selected and the “attach curves to selected surface” option checked.

It is possible to instead connect things by hand after the fact, but how you do so would depend on if you are using hair or nHair and if you are using Maya2014 or not. In Maya 2014 with nHair you can simply make the mesh a passive collider then connect it to the hair system as follows:
connectAttr nRigidShape1.nucleusId hairSystemShape1.attachObjectId

(You can turn off collisions on the nRigid if you don’t want it to collide)

#3

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