Comb Hair Using Curves?

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TheRazorsEdge
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Comb Hair Using Curves?

Post by TheRazorsEdge » 14 Mar 2014, 08:11

Hi all,

from what I understand Si hair is bascially Joe Alter's Shave&Haircut/Max Hair&Fur.
In both Max and Maya there's a "(Re-)Comb Hair Using Curves"-function. Can this be done in SI as well?
There's nothing like that in the Hair menu as far as I can tell, but I'm wondering if maybe there's another way to do this or it's "hidden" somewhere?

If not is there a way to import styled hair from Max/Maya?

Cheers!

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Re: Comb Hair Using Curves?

Post by rray » 14 Mar 2014, 13:23

For strands i made an ice compound which does that, I'll post it next week when I'm back from vacation. Interpolation will be a bit different probably to those systems.
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Re: Comb Hair Using Curves?

Post by TheRazorsEdge » 14 Mar 2014, 17:43

That sounds very cool! Looking forward to it! :)

But I'm guessing that means there's no way to do it with regular hair?

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Re: Comb Hair Using Curves?

Post by rray » 21 Mar 2014, 18:17

Here it is, you need existing hair root points for it. If you need a compound for that, I can post that too.

Plug any number of guide curves in and it interpolates the strands, either in global space or something I called "scalp space" which looks better imho.

Let me know if it's easy enough to use.

It requires these compounds being installed:
http://www.si-community.com/community/v ... =19&t=4936
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Re: Comb Hair Using Curves?

Post by TheRazorsEdge » 23 Mar 2014, 13:01

Thanks a lot for the compound and instructions.
rray wrote:Here it is, you need existing hair root points for it. If you need a compound for that, I can post that too.
That would be great.


I'll give this a good try when I have some free time.

Thank you very much again!

Cheers!

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