Classic Hair

For purposes of backwards compatibility, you can still open and edit scene files with hair simulations that were created using classic Maya Hair. When creating new hair systems, it is recommended that you usenHair. Maya nHair uses the same hairSystemShape and pfxHairShape nodes as classic Maya Hair, however the Nucleus solver generates the simulation.

nHair as it has many advantages and improved technologies including:

• Performance improvements especially for hair systems with a large number of follicles.
• Nucleus based solving for collisions and self-collisions that provide better collision accuracy and control. See About nDynamics.
• Default collisions with other Nucleus-based objects such as nCloth, nParticles, and passive collision objects. See nDynamic Collisions.
• nCaching for saving hair simulations. See nCaching overview.
• nConstraints that let you create constraints between Nucleus object components. See Constraining Nucleus objects.

Topics in this section apply to classic Maya Hair systems. For nHair, Nucleus solved hair systems, see nHair.