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Controlling stiffness with Bend Resistance - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: nHair
Controlling stiffness with Bend Resistance
The other primary dynamic property that we need to adjust for hair, is the stiffness, also known as bend resistance. You may see in the Maya documentation, at least for version 2014, references to an attribute called stiffness. Well for nHair, in fact, stiffness doesn't exist. There is no such attribute. What they meant to say was bend resistance. And that will probably get fixed in a subsequent version of the documentation. But for version 2014 and earlier, just know that when they say stiffness, they mean bend resistance. So let's look at that. I'm going to select the hair and go to the Attribute editor, Ctrl+A. And in the dynamic properties we will see bend resistance. And its got a low value of one right now, and if we rewind and play the simulation we'll see there's basically no stiffness at all. If we increase bend resistance up to a value of let's say around 100 and rewind and play back, we will say that in fact yes, now we're getting some nice stiff hair. So that's how you…
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Setting display quality5m 13s
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Choosing a simulation method4m 35s
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Setting dynamic properties5m 34s
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Controlling stiffness with Bend Resistance2m 8s
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Controlling collisions4m 17s
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Adjusting forces such as mass and drag6m 9s
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Defining Clump and Hair Shape attributes3m 32s
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Adjusting Clump Twist, Clump Flatness, and Clump Curl3m 8s
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Changing hair shape with displacements4m 54s
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Shading the hairSystem7m 19s
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