Getting hair to wrap around geometry

[brandon-lemon]

I have a project for a client and one of the items Im modeling has hair that wraps around a cylindrical object.  The hair on the cylinder does one complete wrap around. I've tried creating curves that would influence the way the hair lays, but I cant get it to wrap completly around the cylinder. Also, how do I get the hair not to penetrate the cylinder? I am very new to creating hair in maya. Or any other software at that.

[danjay]

If you position the start curves how you want them to wrap around the cylinder, then increase the start curve attract and decrease the stiffness it should work.