Some difficulties with hair...

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Hi all,

I started working on a new project some time ago - if I can finish it it should be a short movie with a couple of “monsters” in an arena; I’ve started modelling the first character this week-end and naturally, I made some searches about hair. I especially found that article about long hair with the new system in 2.46-RC1 by TomK_999 and this looks promising; However, I still have a problem: the hairs emitted from the forehead are thrown in front of the face, thus hiding it… A good screenshot will help you undrestand:

http://cmp-france.homelinux.org/blender_projects/NTDs/hair1_mini.jpg
(click for full size picture)

I believe if I could in some way rotate the normals of these faces (the ones selected below) this would solve the problem:

http://cmp-france.homelinux.org/blender_projects/NTDs/hair2.jpg

Now the question is: is there a way to do this without actually rotate the faces, which would damage my mesh?

Or if anyone has an other idea…

Thanks in advance.

Seb.

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with the new hair and you can just comb it…
look on the wiki

:wink:

i tihnk midpoint is your problem btw

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Ok thanks. I didn’t think about the wiki… I haven’t been on this forum for too long - not touching Blender for too long :wink:

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… Bingo: curve guide!
I’ve just made a quick test and it doesn’t look right yet, but the hair are now going backwards and that’s what I was looking for. Now it should just be a matter of tweaking.

Thanks.

Seb.

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if you go into edit mode you can select each hair and reposition it where ever you want around the root

Salutations

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'scuse the dumb question…
but although I’ve heard about it before, I can’t find anything about combing hair in the wiki.
Could someone direct me to the page?

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http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite_Doc
Salutations