Lynda.com - Creating Hair with Maya nHair
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Get tried and true techniques for creating, styling, animating, and rendering hair with nHair in Autodesk Maya. Aaron F. Ross will show you how to prepare your mesh; control for stiffness, shape, and curl; trim and extend follicles; style hair with curves; and adjust color, translucency, and specular highlights. The last chapter shows you how to render nHair with Maya and mental ray.
Topics include:
Prepping a model for hair
Adding nHair
Setting dynamic properties
Adjusting clump, curl, and twist
Painting follicle attributes
Creating long hairstyles with curves
Applying nConstraints
Creating and rendering an nCache
http://www.lynda.com/Maya-tutorials/Creating-Hair-Maya-nHair/144855-2.html
Get tried and true techniques for creating, styling, animating, and rendering hair with nHair in Autodesk Maya. Aaron F. Ross will show you how to prepare your mesh; control for stiffness, shape, and curl; trim and extend follicles; style hair with curves; and adjust color, translucency, and specular highlights. The last chapter shows you how to render nHair with Maya and mental ray.
Topics include:
Prepping a model for hair
Adding nHair
Setting dynamic properties
Adjusting clump, curl, and twist
Painting follicle attributes
Creating long hairstyles with curves
Applying nConstraints
Creating and rendering an nCache
http://www.lynda.com/Maya-tutorials/Creating-Hair-Maya-nHair/144855-2.html