maya - something like fur but with meshes?

somawheels

I need to stick plants and grass models onto a mesh, something similar to fur but where each fur is a custom object. anyone know of a way i can do this?
i would use speed-tree, but its alot slower than maya on my computer.

somawheels

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Eric Chadwick

Have you looked at Paint Effects?

Eric Chadwick

Maya 2015 help file:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-7928E0A6-05AF-4462-930A-99BBBEFBB809

somawheels

thanks, Looks promising; how can i use "paint effects" on an objects faces (with each placed object perpendicular to the face) rather than just a plane?

Eric Chadwick

OK normally I would just answer this for you. But obviously you're not engaging in the most basic amount of research on your own.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before

somawheels

Ok, so paint effects is useful, but unable to use custom meshes/geometry.

somawheels

I have found something called "Geometry paint" ( example vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s94q4Rz_BY )
which paints an object on a mesh, I have a problem with it; In the geometry paint settings window, everything works EXCEPT when i check the "Grid" tick box, i cant paint anything on the mesh... as in nothing is painted and there are no errors/warnings. Grid is really important to me as i need to paint more than one object per polygon. really need help with that and cant find anything anywhere on that problem.

somawheels

Ah, fixed now, grid mode is based on uvs and my model didn't have any, just had to uv it.