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| Save | Button | Save all properties to a .fib file | B: | ||||
| Load | Button | Load properties from a .fib file | B: | ||||
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| Objects | B: | ||||||
| Add selected | Button | Add the selected meshes as base meshes | B: | ||||
| Clear | Button | Clear all meshes from the list | B: | ||||
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| Physical | B: | ||||||
| Scale | 0.0-max | Adjusts Density, lengh, width, and frizziness | B: | ||||
| Density | 0.0-max | How many fibers can be packed into 1 square Blender Unit | B: | ||||
| Segments | 1-max | The number of segments per fiber | B: | ||||
| Verts Per Segment | 1-max | The number of vertices each segment contains | B: | ||||
| Length | 0.0-max | The total length of a fiber | B: | ||||
| Length Deviation | 0.0-1.0 | Alters the length of each fiber by a percentage | |||||
| Base Width | 0.0-max | The width of the fibers at their bases | |||||
| Tip Width | 0.0-max | The width of the fibers at their tips | |||||
| Width Deviation | 0.0-1.0 | Alters the total width ± of each fiber by a percentage | |||||
| Flexability | 0.0-1.0 | Affects how much the fibers bend due to the force of gravity or wind | |||||
| Falloff | 0.0-5.0 | Affects how sharply the fibers bend | |||||
| Frizziness | 0.0-180.0 | How random the angle is that's formed between contiguous segments | |||||
| Follow Normals | 0.0-1.0 | Grow perpendicular to the face they are generated from(1), or in the direction opposite gravity(0) | |||||
| Directional Deviation | 0.0-180.0 | Alters the direction the fibers grow by an angle | |||||
| Coloring | |||||||
| Use parent properties | Toggle | Lets a Vertex-Painted base mesh affect user-defined properties | |||||
| Use parent colors | Toggles | Matches the generated fibers' colors to the base meshe's colors | |||||
| Red affects | Menu | Red vertex paint on the base mesh will alter this property | |||||
| Green affects | Menu | Green vertex paint on the base mesh will alter this property | |||||
| Blue affects | Menu | Blue vertex paint on the base mesh will alter this property | |||||
| Blend Coloring | Toggle | Colors the resulting fibers with vertex paint using a smooth gradient from base to tip | |||||
| Base Color | Color | The color of the fiber's base (root) | |||||
| Base Color Deviation | 0.0-1.0 | Affects the base color in either direction on the color wheel by a percentage | |||||
| Tip Color | Color | The color of the fiber's tip | |||||
| Tip Color Deviation | 0.0-1.0 | Affects the tip color in either direction on the color wheel by a percentage | |||||
| Noise Coloring | Toggle | Colors the resulting fibers with vertex paint using a user-defined noise pattern | |||||
| Color 1 | Color | ||||||
| Color 2 | Color | ||||||
| Bias | 0.0-1.0 | Make either the first (0) or second (1) color overpower the other | |||||
| Contrast | 0.01-5.0 | Adjusts the smoothness of the gradient between the two colors | |||||
| Size | 0.0-100.0 | Affects the size of the noise patches | |||||
| Noise Type | Menu | Selects the noise algorithm to utilize | |||||
| ? | Multi UV Texturing | Toggle | Assigns different UV co-ordinates to different fibers depending on the noise pattern | ||||
| ? | UV Textures | 1-10 | The number of different UV co-ordinates to generate | ||||
| Guides | |||||||
| Use Guides | Toggle | Have the fibers follow guide paths | |||||
| Guide Count | 1-max | The number of guides to generate | |||||
| Guide Segments | 2-max | The number of segments per guide to generate | |||||
| Guide Length | 0.0-max | The total length of a guide | |||||
| Influence | 1-4 | Adjusts how closely the fibers follow the guides | |||||
| Clumpiness | 0.0-1.0 | Specifies the attraction of the fibers to each other | |||||
| Clump Shape | 0.0-5.0 | Adjusts the shape of the clumpiness to be either concave (<1) or convex (>1) | |||||
| Curl | 0.0-180.0 | Curl amount in degrees per segment | |||||
| Curl Direction | 0.0-360.0 | Polar direction to curl in relation to Fiber direction (In Degrees) | |||||
| Assign Vertex Groups | Toggle | Assigns vertex groups to the guides for easy animation | |||||
| Generate Armatures | Toggle | Generate Armatures to easily control the guides *see documentation | |||||
| Generate Guides | Button | ||||||
| Check Selected Guides | Button | Verifies that the selected guides have the correct number of verticies | |||||
| Environmental | |||||||
| Wind | Toggle | ||||||
| ? | Absolute/Relative | Toggles | |||||
| Noise Type | |||||||
| Bias | -1.0-1.0 | ||||||
| Contrast | 0.01-5.0 | ||||||
| GX, GY, GZ | 0.0-1.0 | Force of gravity along the [X,Y,Z]-axis | |||||
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| Create | Button | ||||||
| Estimate faces | Button | ||||||
| Exit | Button | ||||||
| Properties that can be affected with vertex-paint | |||||||
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| Length | |||||||
| Length Dev | |||||||
| Base Width | |||||||
| Tip Width | |||||||
| Width Dev | |||||||
| Flexability | |||||||
| Falloff | |||||||
| Frizziness | |||||||
| Follow Normals | |||||||
| Directional Dev |