No Create Attractor Option For Maya Fur 2008

[charles-fernandez]

I was watching a fur tutorial about how you can use the particles in the fur attractor to drive hair animation with dynamics. The tutorial references the Create Attractor Option in the Fur menu... but after a thorough reading and re-reading my Fur Menu does not have a Create Attractor option... odd since their is an option to delete an attractor. I did a little research and found that you can use a Maya Hair attractor with your fur, but I haven't gotten into that yet. Did they move the attractor settings from Fur over to Hair in 2008 or is this a glitch or something?

[joojaa]

They deprecated this in maya 7.0 and are now movng away form it.

[verbatimline]

Joojaa,
When you write that they are moving away from it, do you mean moving away from curve attractor sets or moving away from using hairSystems to drive the movement and shape of fur? And if Autodesk is moving away from it, what would take its place?

I've toyed around with Shave and Haircut which has really neat tools to style hair. I thought the closest thing to that kind of control in Maya was the Attach HairSystem To Fur function.

[joojaa]

They are moving away form the bone based attractors. Or actually they allready moved awaya and only allow users to move old way to new ways trough the gui.

Life is change

[charles-fernandez]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 09/30/08, 04:35 AM) [snapback]292575[/snapback]
They are moving away form the bone based attractors. Or actually they allready moved awaya and only allow users to move old way to new ways trough the gui.

Life is change

So what's the new way?

[joojaa]

To use hair primitives to adjust the node creat ehair on your object and bind taht hair to your fur. Thing is tough you dont really want particles to drive this.