over here I've been cage deforming hair to a set of
syflex ribbons. just make sure to turn on stretchy
mode.
nice side effect... you can also choose to shape
animate the ribbons or put FK bones into them as well.
-brad
--- Greg Smith <greg(at)stanwinston.com> wrote:
> care to be specific?
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:15 -0400, Marc-Andre
> Carbonneau wrote:
> > Ours too.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
______________________________________________________________________
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > My workaround is Syflex.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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