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Figure 20-50: Extruded guides, viewed against the head.
20. If the style isn't symmetrical, it will
take a little longer, because you'll have
to grab the one-point polys one group
at a time. You might find, though, that
it's still easier to copy the curves and
tweak them from group to group than it
is to build a whole new set of curves.
Once again, I find it's easiest to work from
back to front, with the finished hair piece
and the roots you are currently working
with in the background.
Note
If you want to have the best, thickest hair
you can have, then make sure you have
more points at the tip than you do at the
root, and extrude by knot, not length.
SasLite uses the placement of points on the
guide when it determines how to “grow” the
hair. The more the points are concentrated
at the tip, the thicker and longer the hair will
grow.
21. As you finish each section, if you are
using the style-as-you-go method, cut
it and paste it into the
Roots
layer,
merge the points, select the
Hair
sur-
face,
Select Connected
, and paste it
back into the
Hair Building
layer.
Then, with that layer in the foreground
and the Wig in the background, tweak
the hair until you are satisfied with the
shape. (Don't forget to add Minoxidil to
make the hair healthy and strong.*)
Once it looks good, cut it again, and
paste it into the Wig layer. As I men-
tioned before, this method has more
steps, and may take more time, but for
me, it gives much better results (with a
lot less stress).
(* Don't go looking for the Minoxidil but-
ton. It's a joke! If you didn't get it, take a
break, right now.)
Figure 20-51: Making the rails for another section of
hair.
