RE: (hair) A dreaded hair question, and I don't mean Bob Marley.

Date : Wed, 17 May 2006 12:32:23 -0700
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Greg Smith <greg(at)stanwinston.com>
Subject : RE: (hair) A dreaded hair question, and I don't mean Bob Marley.
care to be specific?


On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:15 -0400, Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote:
> Ours too.
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> From:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Ben Barker
> Sent: May 17, 2006 3:00 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: (hair) A dreaded hair question, and I don't mean Bob
> Marley.
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> My workaround is Syflex.
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> On 5/17/06, Greg Smith <greg(at)stanwinston.com> wrote: 
> 
> Okay I know that XSI's hair leaves much to be desired (very much
> indeed). However its been my duty for the past couple of days to get
> a 
> better understanding of how hair works in XSI, and how difficult it is
> to push it to the breaking point (which is not all that hard, just add
> Dynamics). So that said, I was wondering if anyone had figured out
> how 
> to get decent performance out of the dynamics without having the guide
> hairs emmiting in positive y axis, get fubared. It seems that, with
> gravity applied, the desired stiffness settings and dampening result
> in
> guide hairs collapsing in an accordian fashion, which sometimes
> results
> in the  segments spinning. Now I am no expert of hair digital or real
> (hair styling just never perked my interest as a kid), however
> observing
> hair in the real world, I never really seen hair collapse on itself
> the
> way it does in XSI.  Its as if each child segment, has no real
> corresponding angular relationship with its parent segment. So when
> put
> in a situation where it falls upon itself, its every segment for
> itself. 
> Again I am no expert, and I am sure there's more than meets the eye,
> when it comes to all this.
> 
> So if anyone has work-arounds or tips to tame this beast, that would
> be
> mucho appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
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