little trick :
temporarely scale down your hair to zero or near zero
and check the distance to the mesh points.
then push the mapping between strand and emitting vertex into a userdata map
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)stanwinston.com>
To: "XSI_MailingList" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: [scripting] finding source vertex of a hair strand
> I'm running into a little bit of a problem with hair. I've been trying
> to figure out what is the best way to find what vertex a hair strand is
> emitted from, since there doesn't seem to be a straight forward approach
> in the first place. What has worked for me up to this point is using the
> GetClosestLocations method from the hair emitter object, using the
> position data from the first point on each strand of hair. this work if
> your hair is projecting out perfectly perpendicular. However, in cases
> where the hair is styled and the first point of the hair strand resides
> closer to a neighboring vertex on the emission object, the method does
> not return the desired positional data.
> So I am curious is there indeed a way to fetch which vertex a hair
> strand is emitted from regardless of how that hair has been styled.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
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