Particle Hair from Meshes, Bezier Curves, Nurbs

[airzocker]

yeah, that’s what you wrote before, but the problem is that it doesn’t work with meshes that have a non-uniform thickness. I want to get a similar result as in the image i linked, which means that the ends should end in one point and in the middle it’s a bit thicker…

This is the mesh i’m using for this test:

(split into multiple posts because I can yet only upload one image at a time)

[airzocker]

This is how it should end up (but filled with hairs):

[airzocker]

But this is how it ends up (if I add root randomness, otherwise it would just be offset to the middle):

As you can see it works ok at the beginning, but the ends don’t line up in one point.
I hope I’m doing this right but an option like I mentioned would defenitly be a good solution ;D

[lichtso]

Ah, ok so you want the randomness to decrease (not increase) towards the end / tip?

[airzocker]

yes, but this should work with no randomness at all except towards the center of the mesh.

[airzocker]

We can work together a bit if you want… I just need to get the vertex positions from the current edge loop the hair is bending at for each of the loops the hair is using to bend, if you know how you could implement that.

[mod1 (mod)]

try it /

Hair conductor Blender 2.8

I recently completed the Hair conductor addon. Working version for blender 2.8. [dfhbdrtgbxtfgb] This add-on allows you to create hair (fake) based on your geometry. Using your mesh, divided into strands and materials, he builds the hair. [segrgvr] Due to the small capabilities of the blender api for hair particles, I was unable to implement a private particle system. But you can create bezier curves (having a volume to render) or a geometry mesh (which you can snap to the skeleton) and h…

[airzocker]

ok, I will try it, but can you use a single point as endpoint (floor) or can you scale down the floor to 0 after marking it?

[mod1 (mod)]

you did not understand his logic of work

[lichtso]

I think I know how to do it. Will be implemented in a few minutes. Together with 2.90 support.

[airzocker]

OMG you are awesome… didn’t expect you to react that fast ;D

@mod1 I need to use cycles (real hair would be best) and also rounder geometry than rectangular, but thanks anyway.

[lichtso]

Ok, the update is available on GitHub. To get the pointy ends / tips do the following:

• Use a cylindric mesh which already has a pointy tip
• Set a positive randomness at the root
• Set a negative randomness towards the tip
• Enable coupling of randomness between root and tip

The approach could be improved by offering more control with an interpolation curve.

Example result:

By the way: 2.90 is on the master branch now.

[airzocker]

nice, it works much better now!
Although I still think I’m going to tinker with the script a bit to see if I can get my method to work, because it still has some problems. Mainly, the hair goes quite a bit outside of the mesh with this method, especially with non-cylindrical meshes (which you stated it not working for). And also it looks very “rough”, even when you don’t add any other randomness.

Thanks for all your work!

edit: The API documentation is not very helpful with this, so just a quick question, at the line:
loop = loop.link_loop_next.link_loop_next
does this go around the face by 2 corners to get the next “edge loop” in the mesh?
And then how can I go to the next one in the other direction (around the edge loop)?

edit2: nevermind, I think I found a way ;D

[airzocker]

@lichtso
Wow! I didn’t think I could do this but I have successfully implemented exactly what I was talking about into your addon (even works with random length, but that was the trickiest part ;D). It works with any shape of mesh (didn’t test, but probably also curves etc as they internally get converted to meshes), it doesn’t go out of the mesh, no weird randomness if you don’t turn up randomness (all the options still work with this) and it’s 100% evenly distributed (at least in a cylinder, other shapes are of course not perfectly distributed, but if it’s at least somewhat of a “simple” closed shape it looks fine).

I’m from germany too, so I have to go to bed now, but maybe tomorrow we can discuss how you want to integrate the feature into your addon (don’t really want to go through all the github contributor hustle just for these some changed lines ;D). Also I could show you some results then, or you can just test it yourself.

peace

[lichtso]

Cool, I can integrate the feature into the addon after some testing.
You can send me the code if you don’t have a GitHub account. But then you will not be directly credited there.

Also: Some pics / images of your results would be nice!

[Strangerman]

Hello! I don’t know if this is useful, but seems so.
https://developer.blender.org/rB55efa1795f62bb99dcf4becc046269117032015e

[lichtso]

Thanks, I added it to the 2.91 branch: https://github.com/Lichtso/hair_guides/tree/Blender291

[airzocker]

My new functionality is now implemented in the master (2.90) branch. It adds:

• An option checkbox called “Fill volume” to fill the inside of a mesh/curve by offsetting all hairs inwards by a random amount to give an even distribution in a cylinder (but works for every mesh/curve).
• An option checkbox called “No tip rand” to disable all options that do randomness or bias for the last hair vertex, so you can do hair with randomness/bias and still have a pointy end.

Check it out here: https://github.com/Lichtso/hair_guides/tree/master

edit: Just found some screenshots showcasing fill volume without any child hairs (no randomness, but the second image can also be realized with “No tip rand” if you have randomness):

[3dfan]

awesome tool, thank you !

[rinaldo_benaccetta]

Hi,

Useful plugin!

Do you plan to implement fill volume and no tip rand options in 2.91 and 2.92 versions?