Blowing hair animation! (2)

[s_parasuraman]

I've a scene in which a female character having long hair blows up in wind. I would like ton know the best way to get the realistic animation. Please help.

[duncanbrinsmead]

A quick way is to paint some pfx hair on the head and use the built in turbulence on the brush to do the animation. The uniform force attribute on the brush could be used for the general wind direction and speed. You could also attach a few nurbs curves to the stroke as control hairs to better shape the flow.

Another option is to create cloth strips and apply a turbulence force along with a directional wind. One could then render as hair textured surfaces, or by controlling pfx hairs with them.

Duncan

[s_parasuraman]

Thank you duncan! I'll try your ways. And I remember, seen a tutorial in alias|wavwfront site in which they created pfx hair and controlled with cloth dynamics. but now the tutorial is not available there. can we find that anywhere else? thank you.

[crispy]

From what I've seen recently ( Duncan's technical WIP - 'Alias') the next upgrade could be great for this:
Built in self-collision dynamics (for long hair) and collision-offsetting params to boot...
Lovely stuff Duncan!

Crispy

[s_parasuraman]

Yeh! I'm happy to hear the great upgradation! Waiting for that day! Thanx!

[dickagm]

hi,
it's very simple to made cloth stripes 6 or 10, with the aspect rate that is needed and constrain their points or cloth panel curves that are closest to the head object. after meshurment of the character adjust your cloth scale to compare the scene size. from this point if your character is animatet to do something you will have nice simulation and movement of the stripes....
but when you make curves on that stripes and constrain these curves to the stripes, the curves move nice to but the paint fx that is controlled with these curves moves ugly, like a tree branches (not exactly) )
I tryed everything but the result is not so good
I think that for a better result every one cloth stripe must be arranged to be on every paint fx stroke. with more cloths the simulation gets very slow. on my project the hair is formed from 22 strokes and may be it needs more I control all the strokes with 8 curves (cloths)