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Chapter 29: Adding and Styling Hair and Fur, and Using Cloth
Styling Hair
The Display rollout (located way at the bottom of the rollouts) includes settings for controlling how many
hairs are displayed in the viewports. To see all the hairs, you need to render the scene. You can select to
display Guide Hairs and actual hairs and set a color for each. The Override option causes the color specified
in the color swatch to be used instead of the render color. You also can select a Percentage value of the total
hairs to display in the viewport up to the number in the Max Hairs value. Enabling the As Geometry option
causes the hairs to appear as geometry objects instead of lines.
Guide hairs control the position of all adjacent hairs. Guide hairs extend from each vertex in the attached
object. Guide hairs are yellow by default, and viewport hairs are red, but you can change the color for each
in the Display rollout.
Guide hairs provide a simple way to style, comb, and brush hair. By positioning the guide hairs, you can
control what the rest of the hair looks like.
Note
No guide hairs are available when the Hair and Fur modifier is applied to a selection of splines because the splines
act as guides. n
Using the Style interface
In addition to the hair properties, you can change the look of hair by using the various hair styling features.
These features are found in the Styling rollout. The Style Hair button activates an interactive styling mode in
the viewport where you can brush, comb, and manipulate the individual hairs. The Style Hair button is
activated automatically when the Guides subobject mode is selected.
Within the Styling rollouts are several icon buttons. These buttons are described in Table 29.1. The brush
size can be interactively set by holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys while dragging the mouse when in
Brush mode, or you can change the brush size using the slider located under the Ignore Back Hairs option.
The Distance Fade option causes the brushing effect to fade as it gets closer to the edge, resulting in a softer
effect at the hair tips.

TABLE 29.1
Hair Styling Buttons

Toolbar Button Name Description
Select by Hair Ends (Ctrl+1) Selects the end vertex when you drag over hairs.

Select the Whole Guide (Ctrl+2) Selects all vertices in the whole strand when you
drag over hairs.
Select Guide Vertices (Ctrl+3) Selects specific vertices when you drag over hairs.

Select Guide by Root (Ctrl+4) Selects the entire hair by selecting only the root
vertex when you drag over hairs.
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