Hair from NURBS Curves 

• Hair from NURBS Curves
  • Overview
  • Videos
  • Creating guides from curves
  • Working with the created guides

 

Overview 

You can convert any set of NURBS curves into Ornatrix guides using the Hair from Curves operator. These curves can then be grounded to a surface mesh in Maya and hair can be generated from them.

 

Videos 

Introduction to Guides from Curves

Hair from Curves tutorial (Spanish with English subtitles)

 

Creating guides from curves 

To create Ornatrix guides from curves:

1. Select all of the curves from which you wish to create the guides
2. Click on the Create Groom button in the Ornatrix shelf
3. You should see the Hair from Curves groom option inside the dialog, select it
4. Click Create to create Ornatrix guides

 

Working with the created guides 

There are a few things you might want to do after creating guides from NURBS curves:

• Select the GroundStrandsNode in the hair operator stack and use it to ground the guides to a distribution surface.
• Add a Hair from Guides operator to convert the guides to dense hair

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