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Transforming curves

Transforming curves - Maya Tutorial

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Transforming curves

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Previously we saw how to use the Paint Hair Follicles tool to style the start curves to cause the hair to grow in different directions. And that's what I did here. I painted the inclination and polar attributes to create this part and to cause the hair to grow naturally, according to you know, what looks like a natural growth pattern. However, with that technique you'll always miss one or two of the start curves. And you'll need to adjust them manually. You can also just adjust them manually without using the Paint tool. Currently, we're seeing the output curves. We need to see the start curves. So I want to select any part of the system, and then go up into the nHair menu and choose Display> Start position, and now we can see these dark blue lines, those are actually the start curves. It's important that we don't hide the follicles, cause if we do hide the follicles that will hide the start curves as well, because the Start curves are children of the follicles. Okay, and so we can…

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