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Styling Rollout (Hair and Fur) 531
Left: Hair guides before rotating
Right: Hair guides after rotating (at the forelock)
Scale—Scales selected guides larger (drag
mouserightward)orsmaller(dragmouse
leftward).
Left: Hair guides at original lengths
Right: Hair guides after scaling shor ter
Utilities group
Attenuate Length—Scales selected guides
according to the surface area of underlying
polygons. This is useful, for example, in applying
fur to an animal model, which ty pically has
smaller polygons in areas with shorter hair. For
example, the polygons on an animals paws are
usually smaller than the ones on the chest, and the
chest fur tends to be longer.
Pop S elected—Pops selected hairs out along
the surface normal.
Left: H a ir gu ides b efore u sing Pop Selected
Right: Hair guides after using Pop Selected
Pop Zero-Si zed—Wor k s like Pop S elec t e d,
but only operates on zero-length hairs.
Left: Hair guides on top of head were scaled to zero length.
Right: Us i n g Pop Ze ro affects only the zero-length hair g ui d es.
Recomb—Makes a guide parallel to the
surface, using the guide’ s current direction as a
hint.
Here’s a suggested procedure: Turn on Hair Brush,
select guides using Select Whole Guide, and then
move the guides around not worrying about skin
penetration or hair shape. You’re just trying
to indicate the direction of the hair flow. Click
Recomb frequently, and you will soon start to see
hair flowing smoothly wherever you want it to.
Once you have this flow , you can do your other
styling. With the Recomb tool, you probably won’t
needtouseCombAway.Onceyouhavetheflowas
you like it, you can go in and start styling in scale,
cutguides,andmovesomeofthetipsaround,
“shaping” or “styling” the hair.