Ornatrix Maya: Curves from Strands Workflow?

Hi! I'm trying to integrate Ornatrix tools to my work pipeline and I'm having this problem. Here at this studio they use curves to generate the hair. To rig it, they turn the curves into strips of geo that are rigged and animated, then the curves are wrapped to that geo and they drive the hair Now, I'd like to use Ornatrix's grooming tools, without using imput curves, and at the end use curves from strands to get the curves I need. I've got two problems so far with this. First one is that it makes a curve for each guide in the viewport? so I have to keep them really low otherwise everything collapses. And second and more important, when I put curves from strands on the stack I do get the curves but the hair dissapears, both from viewport and the render. So how am I suposed to do it? I need both of them. I seem to be missing an important part of the workflow, but I haven't been able to find documentation about this, except of course that it's used to generate curves Thanks a lot for any help you can provide!
3 August 2017 #13639
Jeordanis Figuereo	Hi Sofia, "I've got two problems so far with this. First one is that it makes a curve for each guide in the viewport? so I have to keep them really low otherwise everything collapses." Maya's curve algorithm is a bit slow, so the convertion speed will depend on the amount of guide/hair to be converted. Converting guides should be faster, converting hair will be slower given the amount of curves to be generated, but even if it take a few minutes it will finish eventually. In HairFromGuides use the Viewport Count Fraction to decide the percentage of hair to be converted. "when I put curves from strands on the stack I do get the curves but the hair dissapears, both from viewport and the render." The hair disappear because is converted to curves, you can expand the hair object to see the shapes, copy the curve group and delete the CurveFromStrands node to be able to see the hair again. Rememeber that after adding CurvesFromStrands the hair/guides are still attached to the hair, so you can use both. Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.) LinkedIn Discord

Posted by:		Sofia
Data created:	3 August 2017