Maya – nHair
Duration:03:08:00
Actual Duration:3h 8m
Release date:2014, January 29
Skill level:Intermediate
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Course URL:https://www.lynda.com/Maya-tutorials/Creating-Hair-Maya-nHair/144855-2.html
Get tried and true techniques for creating, styling, animating, and rendering hair with nHair in Autodesk Maya. Aaron F. Ross will show you how to prepare your mesh; control for stiffness, shape, and curl; trim and extend follicles; style hair with curves; and adjust color, translucency, and specular highlights. The last chapter shows you how to render nHair with Maya and mental ray.
Topics include:
Prepping a model for hair
Adding nHair
Setting dynamic properties
Adjusting clump, curl, and twist
Painting follicle attributes
Creating long hairstyles with curves
Applying nConstraints
Creating and rendering an nCache
01 – Welcome (2)
02 – Using the exercise files (2)
03 – Understanding Nucleus nHair
04 – Loading nHair examples
05 – Prepping a model for nHair
06 – Laying out UVs
07 – Adding nHair
08 – Choosing Create nHair options
09 – Analyzing the nHair node structure
10 – Displaying curves and converting selections
11 – Tuning the Nucleus solver
12 – Setting display quality
13 – Choosing a simulation method
14 – Setting dynamic properties
15 – Controlling stiffness with Bend Resistance
16 – Controlling collisions
17 – Adjusting forces such as mass and drag
18 – Defining Clump and Hair Shape attributes
19 – Adjusting Clump Twist, Clump Flatness, and Clump Curl
20 – Changing hair shape with displacements
21 – Shading the hairSystem
22 – Creating follicles with the Paint Hair Follicles tool
23 – Selecting follicles in the viewport
24 – Moving follicles in UV space
25 – Trimming and extending follicles
26 – Painting follicle attributes
27 – Painting follicle color
28 – Setting individual follicle attributes
29 – Converting the follicle simulation method
30 – Linking objects to surfaces with follicles
31 – Creating production-quality nHair
32 – Transforming curves
33 – Using Start Curve Attract
34 – Modifying curves
35 – Creating long hairstyles
36 – Locking curve length
37 – Editing curve CVs
38 – Applying nConstraints
39 – Creating an nCache
40 – Rendering in Maya software
41 – Rendering in mental ray
42 – Enabling Multi Streaks
43 – Goodbye
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