Poly Hair in Blender

programmer23

Hi, I am trying to add poly hair onto this model, I already have a quick particle hair system set up. I was wondering if there was a way to have the strands of the particle hair system control the placement and orientation of poly hair "clumps" Is there any way of doing this or is there a better way of doing poly hair in blender.


I could really use the help of anyone willing to share their expertise.

myclay

Hello there,

a direct way to use the Particle system with the wished full controllability I sadly don´t know about.

an alternative way to have control about placement and orientation of hair planes is thru the
Array Sketch 0.75a addon

http://blenderaddonlist.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/addon-array-sketch-075a.html


it resides within the Grease Pencil Tab in the T-Panel

programmer23

Thanks for the tip, but the download link seems to be broken. Any other suggestions?

Shadownami92

I believe if you go to the Home page link by the download link on that page you will get to a blenderartist thread that has working links for different versions of the addon.

myclay

@ Shadownami92
gladly you are right, there is a working link there

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/k11slr071vkxic5/Array_Sketch_0_75.py?dl=1&token_hash=AAGQgcOqF5OpLGDpKfBHINI8MEsXk34H8kGm4Ot-Ye7T_g&expiry=1400534289

programmer23

I got the addon installed, but it only seems to really work for longer hair, I tried using it to place clumps of hair and it does not work well.

Any other suggestions or should I just resort to placing all of the strands by hand?