Ornatrix Maya: Constrain hair tie/ponytail to a simulated groom, Curve from Strands Error.

Hi there, I'm doing a test where the overall mass of hair has movement but it's tired in a pony tail. In context, my character is running who has a big viking beard with a pony tail at the end of it. I'm wanting to find a way to constrain the hair tie to the simulated hair. My main groom is created from curves. I thought using "Curves from strands", will allow me to constrain hair tie and follow the movement of the sim. Following the doc on how to use it: "Once the curves are selected in the Outliner go to the Attribute Editor and switch to CurvesFromStrands* tab. Here you will see the two buttons which will allow you to separate or copy the curves." I get this error when I select either of Seperate Curves and Copy Curves: // Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/firstParentOf.mel line 75: The node 'MeshFromStrands2' is not a DAG node. I might be using it incorrectly. Not sure if this is the right approach and if there are other suggestions? Thanks!
8 October 2019 #26249
Hannah	So I've managed to get the "Curve from Strand" to work, go into the shape node and select the specific curve I want. It's me misusing it, sorry about that. Now I've constrained the hair tie to the curve using a locator at the end of the curve, works fine. But I can't render the hair back to before unless I delete the "Curve from Strand" node, which breaks the connection. I think my next approach will be using an external guide to drive the other groom then convert that external guide to a curve and attach the hair tie, but if I only use 1 I get an error asking me for atleast 3. Will need to experiment abit further.

Posted by:		Hannah
Data created:	8 October 2019