Grow Hair - A visual report

I've been dreaming about animating Hair since its Demo.
Now I have he module I am amazed of how extremely powerful this thing really is.
I did not find how to keyframe aspects of Hair but the Xpresso Hair nodes are very very complete.

Here is an example of how hair grows.
hair-growth

Read on and enjoy the rest of my tests. This page is very heavy in animated gifs!

Follow up:

To get started Drag the Hair into the xpresso editor and just connect a Time Node-Frame port to the Length port of Hair. So every frame the hair grows a bit longer.

xpresso

The result is quite funny!

hair-growth

Then I noticed that you can brush the hairs and grow them too.
Go to the frame with the longest hair and set them as you want with brush and such tools.
Like this for instance.

moustache

Hit play (F8) and enjoy or render the sequence and enjoy even more.

hair-growth

I will try to get further in this xpresso-hair thing as soon as possible.

So comb your hairs when they are long.


Enjoy! And please post your comments or suggestions for new tutorials.
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2006-01-26 — Hair — 6 feedbacks » — PermalinkPermalink

6 comments

Comment from: base80 [Member] Email : 2006-01-26 @ 04:04
gee I hate it when the background is too dark. Is there a tutorial about that ;)
Comment from: luis tappa [Visitor] : 2006-01-26 @ 23:13
Bien tes cheveux qui bougent Base, je suis tes expérimentations poilues avec attention

A+
Comment from: libilich [Visitor] : 2006-02-16 @ 01:56
mé je le veu moi ce modul externe !!!
Comment from: base80 [Member] Email : 2006-02-16 @ 01:59
et un dictionnaire aussi :)
Comment from: Realzeb [Visitor] : 2006-05-22 @ 21:14
Ah ! mon bon Base, je te reconnais bien là, l'art et la manière... ;-)
Comment from: Mike Embleton [Visitor] : 2007-05-06 @ 20:26
You can also get animated length in the hair texture properties. Click the length tick box and animate that.

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