From the course: Maya: nHair
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Modifying curves
Because the star curves are actually NURBS curves, you can utilize the NURBS commands such as bend and curl. And those commands have been duplicated into the nHair menu structure. So that's what I'm going to demonstrate here, is using the Bend command to bend these curves. We are looking at the star curves currently. What we want to do is select all the curves that we want to adjust. And I can go ahead and select the stroke and then convert that selection to the start curves. So, go to the nHair menu, convert selection to start curves. It takes a minute to think about it. But now all the start curves are selected and I can hide the strokes, and I don't want to bend all of these, I just want to bend the ones at the top, so I'm going to unselect everything below the top of the head. Holding down Ctrl, drag a rectangle, and I've only selected those top hair curves. And, just so that I don't lose that selection, I'll go ahead and store it as a selection set. Go to Create>Sets>Quick Select…
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