Planting Guide Strands

 
 
 
Posted by:Animare
Data created:17 April 2016

Hi all,

 

I am using 3ds max 2016 with the latest build of ornatrix. I was looking at the Maya tutorial on the front page. Just wondering when manually placing strands, is there a way to cange their orientation? They just seem to go in one direction. Also is there a way to kind of match the surface direction? Or am I doing something wrong

Hello,

What do you mean by changing direction? In 3dsmax you can have the newly planted guide take the shape of the closest guide to it on the surface through an option in the modify panel.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

Thanks Marsel,

 

It is strange, I gave up that night, and tried again with a new scene and it seems to be working now. It was doing a few werid things so yeah. Is there any rule where I shouldnt' add/delete hair modifiers too many times, does this cause problems?

There shouldn't be any problems adding/deleting modifiers. Edit Guides modifier though does depend on the incoming guides so if you change their order or count it can give you unpredictable results.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)