TUTORIAL Week 6 – 04/04/2010

Create a plane
x enter
Rotate it 90 degrees
click on icon with 3 arrows
Click on fire icon
change emitter to 'hair'
Change normal amount
Add an empty (spherical) and give it a force field
Hair is generated using splines and lines
Segments: 50 is smoother
Visualisation - turn on B-Spline
Select plane
F9 - convert button
Will represent hair as a mesh (convert)
Slash key will isolate what you have selected
Right click plane and move hair to the side
Select 4 dots while holding shift
Press f to make a face


create a sphere
N key = transform properties toolbar
copy name of sphere from the toolbar
change hair back to the emitter system
undervisualisation tab cahnge the first tab to object
OB: (change to sphere)
Run the animation Alt + A

Press the space bar to capture the animation at a particualr point in motion and it should stop.