What's the best way to skin hair planes

CybranM

Hi,
I'm in the process of adding hair planes to a model I've made but I've not found a good tutorial for skinning them so that they follow the underlying mesh.

I've placed the planes on the mesh and the base skin is weightpainted but I'm not sure what the best way to weight the hair planes. Hopefully there is a way to do it more efficiently than manually painting each plane individually.
Feedback on the model is also welcomed.

Here is an image of the model:

CheeseOnToast

Copy the weights from the main model to the hair planes. Run it through a test animation and clean up any errant verts. That should make it a bit simpler.

jfeez

Check this http://td-matt.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/automatic-hairfur-plane-skin-weighting.html should give you pretty good idea on what to do

Mark Dygert

In 3dsmax we use the skinwrap modifier and the convert to skin. I forget how to do this in maya but it is possible too.

CybranM

@CheeseOnToast: I'll give that a go as soon as I get home again.

@jfeez: I looked at that before but the download link is 404 and if I copy the code it gives me error messages.
I don't know coding so I cant fix it either unfortunately.

@Mark Dygert: I've used max quite a bit and I have it installed so I might be able to export it to max, fix the skin weight and then export it back to maya.

Thanks, I'll post how it went later today or tomorrow.

CybranM

Ok, so I tried @CheeseOnToast's suggestion and it worked the way you said. It deform better than just applying the smoothbind but it still needs a lot of tweaking.
I might take the time to fix it properly later on but it looks alright for now.

Thanks for the replies