Emitting Hair from Objects

 
 
 

You can emit hair from polygon meshes and NURBS surfaces and subsurface objects.

To apply hair to an object

You can create, edit and render as many instances of hair as you like in a scene. When you create hair, a hair primitive object and its hair generator are created for each object to which you have applied hair.

  1. Select the object from which you want to emit hair.

    If you branch-select an object, hair is applied only to the parent object, not to the whole branch of objects.

  2. Choose Create Hair from Selection from the Hair toolbar.

    Guide hairs appear on the emitter object, sticking out in the direction of the object's normals. One guide hair is created at each vertex.

    Guide hairs are curves that you use to style the hair — styling operations are described in Styling and Animating Guide Hairs.

    NoteOnce you have generated the hair, you cannot change the number of guide hairs on the object.

The Hair property editor also opens as soon as you create hair. This lets you view the render hairs and set their properties — see Viewing the Hairs for more information.