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530 Chapter 8: Modifiers
5. Position the brush circle over hairs to cut, and
then click to cut the hairs. Hairs with vertices
inside the brush circle are shortened so that
their endpoints touch the brush circle.
Note: Cutting hair doesn’t actual ly remove vertices;
it only scales the guide hairs. You c an restore guide
hairs to their original length with Scale or one of
the Pop commands.
Left: Hair guides before cutting
Right: Hair guides after cutting
Select—Goes into selection mode, where
youcanuse3dsMaxselectiontoolstoselectguide
vertices according to the constraints chosen in the
Selection group (Whole Guide, Ends, and so on).
Distance Fade—Available only for Hair Brush.
When on, the effect of brushing fades toward the
edges of the brush, giving a gentler effect. When
off, brushing affects all selected vert ices equally,
giving a hard-edged effect. Default=on.
Ignore B ack Ha irs—Available only for Hair Brush
and Hair Cut. When on, hairs on back faces are
not affected by the brush. Default=off.
Br ush size slider—Drag this slider to change the
size of the brush.
Keyboard shortcut:
Ct rl +Shi ft +drag
The styling buttons b elow the Br u sh Size Slider are
available only while Hair Brush is on.
Tr anslate—Moves selected vertices in the
direction that you drag the mouse.
Stand—Pushes selected guides toward a
perp endicular orientation to the surface.
Left: Guide hairs before styling with Stand
Right: Guide hairs after styling with Stand (on the right)
Puf f Root s—Pushes selected g uide hairs
toward a perpendicular orientation to the surface.
The bias for this tool is closer to the root of the hair
than to the endpoint.
Left: Hair guides before pu ffing roots
Right: Hair guides after puffing roots
Clump—Forces selected guides to move
towards each other (drag mouse leftward) or
farther apar t (dr ag mouse r ightward).
Left: Hair guides before clumping
Right: Hair guides after clumping (at the right)
Rotate—Rotate or swirls guide hair vertices
around the cursor location (at the center of the
brush).