Yeah Soft's hair is a derivative of Shave. Thanks for the reference,
however, well groomed hair isn't necessarily the style I am going for.
It seems that most hair solutions focus is on the look of "fresh from
the salon" hair, this is far from what I am trying to achieve, I am
trying to do matted, clumped, ragged, dirty, botched up hair that is far
from perfect. While I have made some progress in getting some of the
hair to look like that, I still have a ways to go.
Greg
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 08:56 +0200, Tim Leydecker wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I donÂt want to start a flamewar when I point to Maya,
> especially since I never used *real* hair dynamics until now.
> The only thing I did sofar was create dynamics on guidecurves
> for Maya PFX, softbodies with goals, worked to some extend
> but may not be what youÂre looking for...but since you probably
> have some Maya at SW-digital anyway you may want to check.
>
> Shave&Haircut from Joe Alter seems to be the underlying code
> incorporated into XSI?
>
> ThereÂs also some plug.ins for 3DSMax that are also based on
> the concept of dynamic guidehairs but I fail to remember the names.
>
> If youÂre still in the R&D process for lookdevelopment, you may
> find the following books from Serge Normant interesting:
> (I donÂt provide a link to amazon as results vary depending on country)
>
> Metamorphosis: Transforming the World's Most Famous Women
>
> and
>
> Femme Fatale: The Timeless Style of Beautiful Women
>
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham D Clark" <mailgrahamdclark(at)gmail.com>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: (hair) A dreaded hair question, and I don't mean Bob Marley.
>
>
> > and custom inhouse dynamics.
> >
> > Hair dynamics, in particular the case you describe gets fubared in 4
> > and seems worse in 5. AFAIK there is really nothing you can do to get
> > around it, and even if it didn't have that error, although the speed
> > is very impressive, unfortuantely not enough control, nor the
> > performance/results often needed. I'd recommend rigging something ike
> > with a "sliding rig"(so no accordian) and binding hair guides, or use
> > syflex or make your own even if slower.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Graham D Clark
> > CG Supervisor, Omation, (949) 366-4422
> > http://www.byrecruit.net
> > http://www.grahamdclark.com
> >
> >
> > On 5/17/06, Ben Barker <ben.barker(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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