Groups

 
 
 
Posted by:JabbaTheNut
Data created:29 August 2016

I would like to do the following:

1. Select a number of guides and mark them as being in Group 1

2. Add a Frizz modifier to the stack and apply the modifier only to Group 1

I have seen information on using groups in Maya.  However, I cannot figure out how to do it in 3ds Max for the above situation.

Any suggestions on how to achieve the above?

The workflow in 3dsmax is the same. In Edit Guides you need to go to root mode, find the groups rollup, add a new "Groups" channel, select your strands, and assign value of 1 for that channel.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

Hi Marsel,

Thank you for your response.  I think I must be missing something, because I cannot get it to work.  Here are the steps I execute:

1.  Create a simple sphere

2.  Add Quick Hair

3.  Select Ox Edit Guides modifier

4.  In the Channel Manager, I add a new per-root channel called "Groups"

5.  Select the Root mode of the Ox Edit Guides modifier

6.  In the channel groups section, I make sure the above Groups channel is selected

7.  Select the desired guides and set the Chan. Value to 1

8.  Above the Ox Hair from Guides modifier, I add an Ox Strand Frizz modifier

9.  In the Frizz Controls section, I set the Apply to Group value to 1

 

When I change the Apply to Group value to 1, the frizz effect does not get applied to my designated Group 1.

What am I missing?

Please?

Will look into this shortly, thanks for the patience.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

I will whip up a quick video today to show the basics.. Nothing fancy ;)

 

Thanks

Michael

Michael's video:

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

Wow.  Excellent response Smile

I understand now what I was doing wrong.  Thank you.

By the way, your Groups/Channels implementation is awesome.  It offers a great deal of flexibility for complex hair designs.

Thank you :) We will be expanding on it further for V5

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

There si a problem, i have the channel value option, but its not displaying the short cut numbers. Also There is no Channel manager option. Its Ornatrix version 5


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