Control number of hairs per guide???

 
 
 
Posted by:ruddiger52
Data created:21 May 2019

Is there an easy way to control the number of hairs per guide In a specific way? I’d like to be able to tell a guide to render only one hair.   I am trying to create some fly away feathers and I’d like to have a lot of control

Yes, In Hair From Guides operator, use Guides As Hairs as Distribution Type. A single hair will be generated per guide. 

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

ok great thanks.  Is there a way to have some guides control multiple hairs and some control a single hair?

Currently not. The distribution types are designed to work on all the guides at the same time using it's placement and deformation for interpolation. All the guides have to work together to make the hair interpolation work. 

If you want to create fly away fathers I think the best option is create a second hair object on the same mesh and set the distribution type to Guides As Hairs. 

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Ok great thank you