Detail Modifier
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
- Strand Group
Allows you to isolate the effect of this operator by selecting a particular Strand Group created in the Edit Guides operator.
- Viewport/Render Count
Determines how many segments should be on the re-interpolated strands.
- Smoothing
Amount of smoothing applied to the curve before re-sampling it.
- Sample by Threshold
If on, the curve will be sampled based on how much it bends rather than uniformly.
- Sample Size
Size between 0 and 1 of each candidate sample when sampling the curve with threshold. Smaller values will yield better results but will be slower.
- Angle Threshold
Minimum angle between points on curve which will create new sample.
MaxScript Access
You may use standard properties exposed by showProperties myModifier to access and change this modifier.