Hair Farm Studies

Here are a couple more Hair Farm studies. Majority of these tests will focus more on the simulation features of the product.

---

HairMesh Smooth

The following comparisons shows how the modifier’s subdivision affects the simulation.

Subdivisions: 0

Subdivisions: 3

Subdivisions: 12

• The more subdivisions you add, the more softer the hair moves.
• As I did not include collisions, the simulation times where quite fast.
• Low Speed + high Period values tend to create softer hair.
• Low damping seems to show a good mix of softness an rigidness.

---

Centrifugal Force
Click to view larger animation.

• Higher values tend to show unnatural initial movement (most noticeable @ 20.0)
• Mid values makes the hair bendy.
• Lower values for stiffer hair.

---

Gravity without Compensation

• Gravity compensation helps preserve the hair form throughout the simulation.
• Once you turn it off shows how the gravity takes over the motion.

---

Mass Scale
Click to view larger animation.

• I used a Wind force spacewarp with a bit of turbulence.
• Lower values shows more of the effect of the forces.
• Higher values are more resistant to the forces.

---

HairStyle Forces

HairStyle Forces (WSM)

• For this test, I used the world-space modifier HairStyle Force.
• Again, I used a Wind force spacewarp with turbulence, but for this setup the wind node was animated moving downwards.