Maya Hair Follicles Going Crazy

[riskbreaker]

Hey everyone,

This topic I think was posted before, but I'm not sure if anyone was able to give a clear answer. I'm working with hair for the 1st time, was able to style it and everything to get it how I want. Then, I tried parenting the surface I had the hair on to my character (just the surface, not the hair system or its follicles) and then the follicles started jumping around like there was no tomorrow. I posted a playblast of this in my blog, so please check it out if you're curious:

http://animaking.blogspot.com (most recent post)

I did try parenting the follicles to the head as well, but that created double transformations. I also tried just animating the surface itself without attaching it to the character, and that had the same unwanted effect. Has anyone seen this before or have tips on how to correct it? Is there some global hair scalar I need to change or something? It seems like it may be a common problem...

Thanks!

[riskbreaker]

Hi, I solved this if anyone is curious...
I just duplicated the mesh that the hair was planted on, then transplanted the hair to the new mesh. Not sure why that worked, but it did. Maybe it just got corrupted from adding/deleting follicles all the time. It works great now! Check my blog (linked above) if you'd like to see it in motion.