kinky hair

[dblhelix]

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?

[Fuchur]

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*

[dblhelix]

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.

[mtpeak2]

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.

[John Bigboote]

You should have been able to get your hairs back simply by lowering the cull amount number... try something like 12-15.

[dblhelix]

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!