Draw Strands 

Draw Strands tool, accessible from the Tools tab of the Ornatrix Toolbar, allows creation or editing of hairs inside the viewport by clicking and dragging the mouse. Once a mouse is left-clicked a stroke begins, which defines the shape of a hair strand. When the mouse is released the stroke is finalized.

• If the stroke begins on an empty space of a surface mesh a new strand is created.
• If a stroke begins over an existing strand the shape of the strand is modified to match the new stroke.
• If a surface doesn't have any hair components associated with it a new hair component is added

The created or modified strand changes are stored in an Edit Guides operator. If this operator component doesn't exist yet it will be automatically added.

 

Parameters 

Draw Strands Settings parameter section will appear in the Ornatrix tab when Draw Strands tool is enabled.

• Create New Strands
  Determines if new strands are created when drawing over distribution surface
• Edit Existing Strands
  Determines if existing strands are modified when drawing over them
• Point Count
  Specifies the number of points present in newly drawn strands
• Draw Along Surface
  When on, drawing a strand curve over the distribution mesh will cause resulting curve to follow this mesh's surface curvature
• Distance From Surface
  Specifies how far away from mesh surface the curve will be moved over its length
• Apply Smoothing
  When on, resulting curve will be smoothed
• Smooth Amount
  Specifies how much to smooth the resulting curve
• Select Edited Strands
  When true newly created and edited strands will be selected, deselecting any previous strands
• Maximum Length
  Allows limiting the length of drawn strands to a specific value. For example, when drawing very short hairs.

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