You Maya Tutorials - Hair 01

Hi I'm James and this is a self made tutorial on the Maya hair system. In this tutorial I will show the basics on how to use Maya hair and a few of the options and attributes that come with this node, hope you enjoy and please ask if you have any questions. There will be more tutorials soon...

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Education

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• You
• Maya
• Tutorials
• Hair
• 01
• 3d
• graphics

[dragonblood99]

how do i apply hair to only the faces that i've selected?

[youmayatutorials]

@dragonblood99 it treats the mesh as a a wholes object so you can either separate the faces with the hair on as a separate polygon object, or use the pain hair tool :)

[georgeannaclarkpro]

great explination but how do you put the hair in only a certain area?

[youmayatutorials]

@georgeannaclarkpro the best way to do that is either use the pain hair tool where it places hairs where you use the brush, or duplicate the faces of that area and apply hairs to it, so e.g. if you wanted a patch of hair on his head, duplicate the faces from that area, apply the hair to it, then have that piece have the same paint weight values to your rig so it follows along with the part it was duplicated from, then just hide that duplicated mesh :)

[ewigkase1]

what if you want to do spiky hair what is would i need to play with for that effect? ill try on my own but if i can fugure it out hopefully i can get an answer here thanks great tut

[youmayatutorials]

@ewigkase1 to get spiky hair you have to make the hair quite still and set the rest curve in a spiky position, this way gravity has less effect and the hair try's to rest in the spiky position, however most spiky hair is more ridged so it might help to use something like maya fur or the plugin shave and hair cut also this will be easier as maya hair take up a lot of cpu.

[BOOMBABY122]

hey can you make a tutorial about how you can place hair's on cretin parts of the polygons cuz i made a human face and i have no idea how to place the hair on the head without putting it on the hole face not trying to make a chewbacca you know haha nice vid tho 5 star's plz help!!!!

[charissakuo]

@charissakuo ohh I already find it.. it's Dynamics/ Hair..

[charissakuo]

hello, because the video quality is not very good, so I wanna ask you, how to show the window up at 0:18?( i mean... hmm such as, Polygons/ Create UVs options) You understand what I meant? sorry for my poor english

[yashaegypt]

thanx

[atrieton]

Hey..nice...for more hair tutorials visit this channel: imdvirus

[anka3987]

this is so hard :(

[clym3danimator]

Thank you. Your tutorial is very well communicated and clear - thanks for your time :)