Add Hair

This is the first function you will invoke to create hair, and this is how it works:

A Hair object will be created and, depending on which object was selected, linked accordingly. More specifically:

• If a polygon object, Generator object or spline object was selected when the hair was created (guides / hair will be arranged to existing guide), hair will be applied to the entire object.
• If a point-, edge-, or polygon selection was active when the hair was created, hair will only be applied to the(se) selected area(s). A Selection tag will be created automatically that is linked to the hair. This Selection tag can be edited later.

Using Add Hair to create guides / hair will generate guides on each point of the object.

These guides can be edited using the tools described in this chapter. In addition to being affected by guides, the rendered hair is also affected mainly by

• the Hair material

and

• the Hair object.