Using Hair Tools

Much like the sculpt and painting tools, Modo offers a variety of tools for styling fur and its associated hair guides. Located in the Paint layout, in the Hair Tools sub-tab of the toolbox, giving you everything needed for combing and sculpting fur into the proper do. The tools all work double duty styling both guides, and when the Edit Fur Map option is enabled in the tool's properties, image maps can be used to control the styling of a regular fur layer as well.

Styling Tools

Hair Styling
	Blow	The Blow styling brush pushes the fur away from the brush, like a hair dryer would.
	Comb	The Comb brush works much like a virtual comb, dragging fibers in the direction of the cursor.
	Curl	The Curl brush adds swirls to fibers rotating them based on the size of the brush tip.
	Stretch	The Stretch brush scales the individual fibers, reducing their overall length.
	Smooth	The Smooth brush straightens and smooths bent and kinked fibers.
	Move	The Move brush grabs the fibers like a magnet and moves them in the direction of the mouse pointers movement.
	Separate	The Separate brush moves adjoining fibers or guides apart from each other with a falloff based on the brush shape and strength.
	Root Puff	The Root Puff brush rotates the root of the fibers or guides toward the direction of the surface normal.

Brushes

Select a brush style to use with the styling tools. For a full description of each style, see Customizing Paint Tools.

Toggles

The panel provides the following controls that affect hair styling:

• Collide with Base Surface - Check this if you want the hair to collide with the surface (from which the hair originates) when styling the hair. This ensures the hair remains on the surface and does not pass through it.

Hair guides combed down with Collide with Base Surface on. Note how the guides flow over the surface.	Hair guides combed down with Collide with Base Surface off. Note how the guides pass through the surface

• Deferred Fur Update - When editing guides using tools in the Guides section, check this to only update the preview fibers when you drop the tool, not during editing. If unchecked the preview fibers update with the guides. By checking this you can focus on adjusting the guides accurately without extraneous detail.

Note:  For more information on customizing the preview fibers, see GL Display.

Guides

For a description of how to use these tools, see Hair Guides.

Fur Image Maps

See Controlling Fibers with Vector Maps for more information.