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Blender physics 101: Hair children

Blender physics 101: Hair children - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Blender physics 101: Hair children

- [David] Today we're going to talk even more about hair. And I know you're excited! For this week, I want to talk about Hair Children and what you can actually do with them. There's so many options. Some that you can't even see until you're at render time. So let's get started by getting an interesting shape. Sorry little cube! X, Delete, Shift +A Let's add ourselves a monkey. Hit Tab to go into Edit Mode. Control +F. Shade smooth, there we go. Let's zoom in here. Now I'm going to come to Render Settings. And while I like Eevee, there are a few options that are only available to Cycles. So I'm going to switch to Cycles. If you have a GPU, please switch to it. If you don't know how to, you can go to Edit Preferences, System, CUDA, and make sure that your GPU's turned on. There we go. Now let's go to the Particle tab. Click on this monkey. F3 or a Spacebar to get to Operator Search depending on what…

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