Is there anyway to grouping or select fur guides?

I was struggling with making long hair in houdini.

I'd like to select some specific guides and groom it using grooming tool(screen brush) like other fur tools.

Any good solution or tip for grooming long and complex hair?

Hi, I can't answer you question in particular (someone else probably can) but I did find this great video regarding hair made by Andrew Brown.

https://vimeo.com/88711732 [vimeo.com]

I found the Blender technique works well for guide hairs. (around 41min into video) Personally, I feel that I have better control of the guide hairs using Blender compared to Houdini. (especially for long hair)

hope that helps
Rob

I have the same question! Is there a way to comb individual guides/hairs?
I read in another thread by selecting them, it's possible to do so but it just does not work!

Guides have to be selected with the small arrow next to “Primitive Group” in your guide groom node, not with the normal viewport select.

McNistor
Guides have to be selected with the small arrow next to “Primitive Group” in your guide groom node, not with the normal viewport select.

That was it! Thanks for the tip!

Btw it isnt possible to hotkey this button without the use of a script.

import toolutils
import furtoolutils

node = hou.selectedNodes()

sv = toolutils.sceneViewer()
selection = sv.selectGeometry(“Select Curves To Groom”, 0, True, False, False)

kwargs = node
furtoolutils.startGrooming(kwargs, tool=“groomscreen”)

if(len(selection.selectionStrings())) :
node.parm(“group”).set(selection.selectionStrings())

node.parm('stroke_changedsel').set(True)

Hotkey this script and you should be able to invoke it without having to keep clicking that button.


Thanks for the shoutout but anyone looking at that video should check out the H16 and H16.5 fur masterclass videos. As the old houdini fur techniques are obsolete imo. New stuff is amazing.