This tutorial by Frédéric van der Essen explains all the new hair features in the latest Blender releases: static particles, force fields, curve guides and vertex weight painting to determine hair length and density.
You can download the video from the Blender website. While you're at it, there is also this demo file by Matt Ebb.
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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It's linked in the release notes, made by Frederick van der Essen (sp?) aka efbie.
Cheers, Matt!
Nice tutorial, one thing though is unmentioned and another could be irritating. a) How do address a force field to a selected object - does this work anyway? b) Mention that you have to create different vertex groups, for newbees the vertex groups just 'pop up' somehow. More of this stuff is required, thanks Matt.
Very good.
Can't wait to create my own hairy models.
im a 3d modeller already....but whats the next step to make
that 3D stereographic image ...??
i expect ur reply ASAP.....
Thank you.
Very interresting ... so Blender is a hairdresser too ... ok good :)
Oh my !!! Thanks a lot, a newbie starts really fast thank to you !
i can't open
what i do???