Cycles Hair Braid - how to set up single cord braid?

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hi everbody,
i recently tried to generate a braid with the Hair particles, but it seems that by default a braid is always made of at least two cords, here A and B:

Is it possible to set up a single cord braid, like this ?

Some help would be nice !

Thank you.

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A braid is by definition made up of three cords (at least), while what you ask for is made by two cords, so i think that it’s not possible to get with particle children which are created automatically by three cords for each strand.

paolo

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Hi Paolo,
thanks for the reply, but it seems that i had a little misunderstanding in my explanation: What i am trying to achieve is a SIGNLE Cord braid. Just a bundle of hair, twisted around an axis - similar to the screw modifier for meshes, but only to twist hairs. The desired result does not necessarily to be achieved using the braid function - maybe there is another way or setting using a modifier or force field - i tried force fields also, but until now i did not get any result.

The idea has also to not to create only one Single Cord braid, but a bunch of it (say 100 or more).

Does somebody have an idea to this ?

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Hi,

I can’t really help you, sorry about that, but in your picture the object is made of two interwined threads.

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What you want to achieve, from the reference, is made with two cords wrapped around each other, not one.
EDIT: i have seen just now the post from Hadriscus, this comment was superfluous, sorry.

Said that, the only option with hair could be through the Curl kink, I made an attempt and you have to use the max number of segments (50) and the max number of display steps (10) to get this:

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with a higher frequency of the curl (in the image it is 200) these number don’t suffice.

I don’t know whether it is feasible.

paolo

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You could perhaps do them by a Helix curve, and you can even get them to be used as object for hair system. EDIT: but not combed or arranged one by one.

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paolo

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Hey, I am late to this topic, but I still suggest you to look into my addon demo video, which show you how to generate this kinds of single cord braid with it. see Demo 2 in this video.