Copy Hair

[DJBREIT]

I made a copy of my models head to do the hair.(to speed things up) But when I copied it back I lost the hair info. and I can not drag and drop the info. to the main model.

[Rooky Animator]

did you try using the spacebar? That's usually the problem

[John Bigboote]

That will tend to happen. You need to think inversely in your copy-paste.

 

Instead of copying your head and pasting it into a new body try the opposite:

Delete the entire body from your model and SAVE-AS a new file. Now, copy the body you want on the head and paste it into the file you just created.

 

The hair styling should still be intact!

 

This is known as 'Thinking outside the box'...don't try it at work!

[DJBREIT]

did you try using the spacebar? That's usually the problem

 

That will tend to happen. You need to think inversely in your copy-paste.

 

Instead of copying your head and pasting it into a new body try the opposite:

Delete the entire body from your model and SAVE-AS a new file. Now, copy the body you want on the head and paste it into the file you just created.

 

The hair styling should still be intact!

 

This is known as 'Thinking outside the box'...don't try it at work!

I know that but I have a rig set up already and I did not want to play with that.

[John Bigboote]

You could try an 'import'?

 

-Delete all geometry from model A except for the scalp (hair emitting geometry)

-Save As new model

- Open the destination model and right clik 'import' and select the new model...

 

There's GOT to be a way here...

[mtpeak2]

Delete all the geometry that doesn't have hair applied, scale the geometry slightly smaller and "save as" scalp with hair, or something like that. Now import the scalp model into your full model. Make sure you assign the scalp geometry to a bone in the rig and save. This should work in v13s? (can't remember which version that was fixed in) and up.

[John Bigboote]

What does scaling the geometry slightly smaller accomplish, MT?

[mtpeak2]

So it's not sharing the same space as the real head geometry.

[DJBREIT]

Delete all the geometry that doesn't have hair applied, scale the geometry slightly smaller and "save as" scalp with hair, or something like that. Now import the scalp model into your full model. Make sure you assign the scalp geometry to a bone in the rig and save. This should work in v13s? (can't remember which version that was fixed in) and up.

That worked. but is was scaling up a hair that was needed.

 

Yes I know that was a bad joke.

 

Thank's