topic Re: assign pfx brush to hair in Maya Forum

assign pfx brush to hair

SgtSlick — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 23:21:42 GMT

I'm a relative noobie to Maya and am using Maya 2015 on a Mac. Am trying to create a cornfield following the directions from a thread posted on CGSociety forums in 2013.

Also here is a workflow for using a hair system for a more fully dynamic corn field:
1 select ground mesh
2 Hair: Create Hair (output = pfx)
3.On Hair system:
hairs per clump = 1, clump width = 0
stiffness = 0.5 (or bend resistance if using nucleus solver)
turbulence = 0.01
turbulence speed = 0.1

3.Select brush preset cornThin.mel
4.Select hair and do hair: assign pfx brush to hair
5.Edit brush cornThin1:
tubesPerStep 0
startTubes 1
tubeDirection alongPath
lengthMin / Max 2, 2
pathFollow = 1
lengthFlex = 0.5

So far I created a polygon plane, and selected it. I then Create Hair, then selected the conrhin.mel brush preset, so far so good. This next part is where I'm lost. "Select hair and do hair: assign pfx brush to hair. I cannot for the life of me locate this menu command anywhere and also spent about 2 hours searching the internet, YouTube tutorials, etc with no luck. Even the Autodesk help topic just references it but doesn't tell you or show you where in the GUI/menus it can be found.

I will be forever grateful in someone can help me find this "assign pfx brush to hair" menu command. Possibly the menus and features have changed since the version he was using.

Many thanks in advance for any help forthcoming.

Re: assign pfx brush to hair

pshwayka — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 04:05:13 GMT

Here you go!

Re: assign pfx brush to hair

SgtSlick — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 13:18:48 GMT

Thank you so much pshwayka! Happy holidays to you and yours!

Re: assign pfx brush to hair

SgtSlick — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:12:10 GMT

If I may impose on your kindness once again pshwayka. I've attached a screen capture of the pfx effect applied to the hair. As you can see it's not growing in the right direction. Where can I find the menu's referred to here in Dirtvic's post to alter the direction, shape, etc of the corn?

3.Select brush preset cornThin.mel
4.Select hair and do hair: assign pfx brush to hair
5.Edit brush cornThin1:
tubesPerStep 0
startTubes 1
tubeDirection alongPath
lengthMin / Max 2, 2
pathFollow = 1
lengthFlex = 0.5

Obviously need corn to stand vertically erect and would prefer no wind effects on it. Need it to appear as near harvest time corn fully upright on a still day. Thanks very much.

Re: assign pfx brush to hair

pshwayka — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:26:07 GMT

Select pfxHair1 in the outliner. This should bring up the attributes editor. Go to the cornThin1 tab...all the stuff you are looking for is on that tab. Expand the Tubes section...you'll find all of those attributes under the various subsections there.

Re: assign pfx brush to hair

SgtSlick — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:35:03 GMT

Many thanks pshwayka for sharing your time and knowledge.

Re: assign pfx brush to hair

pshwayka — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:00:26 GMT

No problem. Happy Holidays to you too!