I write tools for a living and I have an opinion on non-programmers using robots to make tools. - just use the robot to build the thing. The result will be 100% ass from an engineering perspective but that's not the point - Robots are excellent at prototypes / proof of concepts. The ethical concerns around robots writing…
Had a look at Hair and Fur: The guides (Display Guides in the Display rollout) are hard coded to 15 segments, but if you scale all of them down enough right at the start and choose the tips as selection method, you can manipulate them reasonably well. "Stand" would be similar to a gradual reset/revert, "Clump" to pinch.…
Thank you for the answers guys, I'll keep an eye on the topic if a solution comes up, what I want to get is not very clearly stated I think, I'm sorry for that
klunk is completely correct about needing a full vector field - the data has to be continuous and smooth or all manner of stupid shit happens in the gaps the best "don't need to write a special tool approach" I've found is to use a hair sim, apply a material that writes out the derivatives along each hair (arnold has a…