I’ve changed my mind :oD

I’ve had a look at the Hair and Fur generated hair and don’t like the quality, so I’ve decided to model the hairs myself.

As I’m now doing that, is there a way so distribute objects (the hair) across an organic surface that will use the aforementioned map (see below)?

Many thanks.

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ORIGINAL POST

Hello.

I’ve sculpted a model in Mudbox which now needs to have some hair added.

I do not need dense hair. I’ve already sculpted the ‘root bumps’ in Mudbox and now need hair to grow out of them (not actually animated). There’s probably 200/250 in all.

I had the idea of creating a texture in Mudbox that is simply white dots on top of the bumps. I was hoping to export this and use it in Max as some sort of ‘hair map’, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

These hairs do need to be precisely positioned. Is this something that can be done with Hair and Fur, or am I going to have to model and manually position them?

Many thanks.
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Software:
3ds Max Design 2012 [64bit] - Awaiting SP / Hotfix
Boot Camp (2.1) Windows 7 Ultimate [64bit] - SP1

Hardware:
Apple Mac Pro (3.1):
- 2x 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 (8-core)
- 6GB (2x 1GB - 2x 2GB) 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 - Driver: Catalyst 9.9

Max on a Mac: Life doesn’t get much better!

You could use Pflow to place your hairs. Use a Position Object operator and check Density by Material.
With H&F, you can map the Density, Scale, Cut Length, Etc… and use an instanced object instead of the usual hair.

Thanks Samab.

I’ve moved onto another part of the model at the moment, but I will check PFlow out when I return to do the hair. I did use the map in the Density slot of H&F before I created this topic, but the hair still grew all over the mesh!!!

Hopefully PFlow will be more successful for me.

Thanks again.

Software:
3ds Max Design 2012 [64bit] - Awaiting SP / Hotfix
Boot Camp (2.1) Windows 7 Ultimate [64bit] - SP1

Hardware:
Apple Mac Pro (3.1):
- 2x 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 (8-core)
- 6GB (2x 1GB - 2x 2GB) 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 - Driver: Catalyst 9.9

Max on a Mac: Life doesn’t get much better!