#Create hair in maya 2016 tutorial series#

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Matt Barr has posted a tutorial on making easy hair in Maya.

When Maya converts the spline primitives, it creates a node group named _convert with polygonSurface child nodes for each output mesh object. Maya Fur lets you can create realistic, self-shadowing fur and short hair on multi-surface NURBS, polygonal and subdivision surface models. by 3dtotal staff on 29th September 2011-Unique views-Like.

To generate higher resolution meshes, add more CVs to the spline primitives by increasing the Modifier CV Count value.

Spans in the polygon meshes are created from the spline primitive CVs.

Otherwise, Maya's interactive performance maybe affected. For Descriptions with a large number of hairs, consider reducing the Description's Density value or converting a percentage of the hair density by using the XGen Editor Output Settings (see below). I am showing all the stages of creation and in this series, you will find out what stages my workflow consists of and how I start working with a hairstyle.

#Create hair in maya 2016 tutorial series#

By default, Maya generates a polygon mesh strip from each hair. As promised, I'm starting a series of videos showing the complete creation of a hairstyle from scratch to the final - (hair for games) - real-time hair in Ornatrix for Maya.When converting hair and fur to Maya geometry, consider the following: Shaping hair and fur in XGen, and then converting the groom to low-res polygon strips is an ideal way to create hair for game characters and other game assets. In Maya 2020, a number of different PBR shaders are available. This action assigns a PBR material to your model. In the Assign New Material dialog box, go to Maya > Stingray PBS.

In the menu that appears, select Assign New Material. This means you can easily create multiple variations of your hair and fur by modifying the Description and then generating additional polygon versions. In your scene viewport, select your model or geometry and right-click it. Converting hair or fur to geometry does not alter the original groom. You can convert hair and fur created by default splines Descriptions to Maya polygon mesh objects.