dblhelix Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 this is so weird i'm almost excited. 15j+ (no that's not the weird part); Tools>Customize>Toolbars> clicking the box for "Grooming" brings a tool set in view immediately. clicking OK makes it disappear. going back clicking the box brings it back, but only till i click OK. seriously! anybody? makes me want to write a camp fire song. second, slightly less exciting incident; hairing up an ostrich feather all's well, tweakin'&learnin'. wanted to test "cull hairs" what it does and turned it to 100%, hairs disappeared. changed it back to 50%, they did not return. rebooted a:m, hair's gone. hmm? any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuchur Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 this is so weird i'm almost excited. 15j+ (no that's not the weird part); Tools>Customize>Toolbars> clicking the box for "Grooming" brings a tool set in view immediately. clicking OK makes it disappear. going back clicking the box brings it back, but only till i click OK. seriously! anybody? makes me want to write a camp fire song. second, slightly less exciting incident; hairing up an ostrich feather all's well, tweakin'&learnin'. wanted to test "cull hairs" what it does and turned it to 100%, hairs disappeared. changed it back to 50%, they did not return. rebooted a:m, hair's gone. hmm? any thoughts? First: This is intended to be like that. Going to "Tools > Customize > Toolbars > Grooming" lets you customize the toolbar. But it will still only be visible if there is something to groom and you are in grooming-mode. So create a hair-particle-material, attach it to a group in a model and go to Grooming-Mode (button next to Bones-Mode, etc.) in the modelling-window. (and action and chor, but that doesnt matter now). Now the grooming-toolbar will be visible and you can start styling. A:M only offers you tools and toolbars if you can use them... so that at any other time your interface is tidy... Second: Did you deactive particles by acicdent? Hit "Shift+8" or go to your rendering-properties at "Tools > Options" or the Draw-Toolbar to see if Hair is turned on. See you *Fuchur* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dblhelix Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 announcing "tidy" as my new favourite word. this might even threaten my biannual vacuuming thank you! second, hair=particles was on. i deletd the hair mat, saved model, saved project as, rebooted, made new hair and am not touching cull no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtpeak2 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Cull hair removes hair from the group randomly. This allows you to set the density high and then lower it to give it a more natural distribution. 100% culling will remove all the hair or at least most of it. So you may have saved the material with 100% cull hair or saved the model with it set in the shortcut to the material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 You should have been able to get your hairs back simply by lowering the cull amount number... try something like 12-15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dblhelix Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Cull hair removes hair from the group randomly. this was helpful, thought about it and now know what happened: an extreme refresh problem. had trouble with ctrl+s not getting rid of the asterisks as well - and was listening to a cd in the laptop at the same time. since hair is so fast to preview, didn't even consider this, it felt like an anomaly. thank you everybody! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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