Description

Title:	GuidesFromCurves
Category:	Workflow
Status:	Considered
Priority:
Posted By:	jmarcus ( james marcus )
Date Created:	8 May 2017
Description:	Can we have GuidesfromCurves added to the tool bar so it can be added in the stack? It would make our workflow a lot easier. As of now, to use moded curves in edit guides as guideCurves, we have to export the curves, collapse the stack, and rebuild the groom. If I can add this node above the editGuides, collapse from there and not have the baked guides it would be a lot faster.

Follow Ups

9 May 2017 #13192
Jeordanis Figuereo	Hi James, If I understand correctly, you are converting guides to curves then to guides again? Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.) LinkedIn Discord
9 May 2017 #13194
jmarcus	yes. This was the workflow we had at Blur using max and I try to copy it in maya.
9 May 2017 #13195
Jeordanis Figuereo	There are two nodes that might help you with this: CurvesFromStrands to convert the hair to curves and GuidesFromhair to convert the hair to guides. in Both cases you can convert the guides or curves back to hair. Let me know if that's what you are looking for. Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.) LinkedIn Discord
9 May 2017 #13196
jmarcus	I know that, the issue is not converting to curves. It is converting to curves, extracting those converted curves, then having to rebuild the hair with the curves created. Here is the workflow create guidesFromMesh (to block out the groom) ---> EditGuides ---> Use CurvesFromStrands (to get new curves) ---> take extracted curves and rebuild the hair stack, usually by copying and pasting. If I start with curves, edit them and want to use the new curves, I can always use the remove input curves and add the new ones afterwards but the the Outliner window that is used for this is very difficult to use. ALl of the groups are opened up and it seems that the items just cycle as you scroll down the list.
9 May 2017 #13198
Jeordanis Figuereo	Ah right, I understand, sounds interesting. We'll consider this, thanks for the suggestion. Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.) LinkedIn Discord