Hair question

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I have a little cat model that I am modeling, rigging and texturing to use in learning some creature animation in the near future.

But hair particles have been confusing the heck out of me. I want to create a a coat of body hair but with 0 initial parent particles so that I can manually add parent hairs in particle edit mode. The thing is no matter the settings I use when I am in particle edit mode and use the add brush it will either not add a parent strand when I click on the mesh or if it adds a parent hair it adds it in a location where I didn’t click.

I would like to know what causes this as I want to add parent strands where I click. The current situation of random hair placement or no hair is super frustrating.

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I just tried it with a cube, setting the emissions to 0 so that there wasn’t any when I started and used the defaults on the add, and it worked like I expected. Not sure why it’s not working for you.

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I played around with some other files it turns out it’s a bit wonky if the sub-surface modifier is above the particle one. Re-ordering the modifiers around solved my problem.

Thanks for your help.

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You should keep the particle system below the subsurf, and in the particle system check ‘use modifier stack’ Also keep your subusrf view and render levels the same 1/1 or 2/2