Step Three: Styling Hair
Your next step is to style the hair the way you want it. You can do this by setting the included styling parameters and/or by using the Hair Edit tool at any time after growing hair. You can toggle the Show Populated function on and off while you work to check your results as you go. The hair styling parameters are:
- Show Populated: Checking the Show Populated checkbox displays both the guide hairs and the population hairs. This box must be checked prior to rendering your image in order for the hairs to appear.
- Hair Density: The Hair Density parameter controls the total number of hairs in the group.
- Tip Width: The Tip Width parameter controls the hairs’ widths (diameters) at their tips.
- Root Width: The Root Width parameter controls the hairs’ widths (diameters) at their roots.
- Clumpiness: The Clumpiness parameter determines the hairs’ tendency to form dreadlock-like bunches.
- Kink Strength: The Kink Strength parameter is the measure of how wavy/curly hair is. Increasing this value increases the hairs’ waviness, and vice versa.
- Kink Scale: The Kink Scale parameter determines the size of hair waves/curls. Increasing this value increase the hairs’ waviness, and vice versa.
- Kink Delay: The Kink Delay parameter specifies the distance from the root at which the hair begins to curl/wave.
- Verts Per Hair: The Verts per hair parameter controls how many vertex points are in each strand of hair.
- Style Hairs: Clicking the Style Hairs button selects the Hair Select tool and opens the Hair Style Tool palette.
Using the Hair Select Tool/Palette
Step 2: Growing Hair
Step 4: Setting Hair Dynamics
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