Modeling and Styling	Parametric Effects	Animation	Rendering	Import/Export
Edit Guides _Modifier	Surface Comb _Modifier	MassFX Dynamics _Modifier	MentalRay _Object	Alembic Export _Exporter
Ground Strands _Modifier	Curling _Modifier	Strand Multiplier _Modifier	Strand Animation _Modifier	Ornatrix Hair _Exporter
Guides from Surface _Modifier	Frizz _Modifier		Fast Ray Tracer _Atmospheric	Shading and Materials
Guides from Mesh _Object	Hair Clustering _Modifier		Accurate Ray Tracer _Atmospheric	MR Hair _{MR Shader}
Guides from Shape _Modifier	Guide Clustering _Modifier		Hair Draw _Effect	Hair Texture _{2d Map}
Hair from Guides _Modifier	Propagation _Modifier		Render Settings _Modifier	Cheap Shader _Shader
Baked Guides _Object	Gravity _Modifier		Shadow Maps _Shadow	Expensive Shader _Shader
Baked Hair _Object	Length _Modifier		Raytraced Shadows _Shadows	Translucent Shader _Shader
Hair Presets _Object	Detail _Modifier		Deep Shadow Maps _Shadow
Hair Preset Maker _Object	Symmetry _Modifier		VRay _Modifier
Guides from Guide Mesh _Modifier
Guides on Spline _Modifier
Hair Shells _Modifier
Mesh from Strands _Modifier
Hair from Mesh Strips _Object

Detail Modifier

Detail Modifier
- Parameters
MaxScript Access

_{Strands with detail 5 (left) and detail 20 (right)}

Very often it is required to either increase or decrease the strand approximation on the fly. For example, sometimes it is a good strategy to start modeling the hair in a very low detail setting and then as you progress to increase detail and edit the hair into their final shape.
Furthermore, it is often more desireable to have a lower segment count in viewport and bigger one during render to get smoother results. Using strand detail modifier you can control the viewport and render segment count of specified strand object separately.
Strand detail uses a 3'rd degree b-spline interpolation to smoothly vary out the shape of individual hairs.

Parameters

Viewport/Render Count
Determines how many segments should be on the re-interpolated strands.

MaxScript Access

You may use standard properties exposed by showProperties myModifier to access and change this modifier.

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