Polygon Hair UV Method (Maya/Blender)

sprocket

Is there any easy way to fit a bunch of hair cards to one shell if they don't have exactly the same topology? 

Basically I just need all of that hair fitted onto that texture so that the islands stretch all the way from the top to the bottom. With Maya I can get them all to overlap properly but they don't all extend the whole way. 

Eric Chadwick

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throttlekitty

In maya, I would either grab the bottom verts in the viewport, or the uv editor, whichever is easiest*. Then align them all to the bottom and move the whole set down to suit the texture, and repeat for the top. Then unfold the center uvs using legacy mode/vertical to fix the stretching. 

*I'm assuming here that they've all been unwrapped flat and vertical to begin with and more or less overlapping. Nightshade UV has a nice stacking routine for this.