fur and wind

# 1 28-08-2012 , 12:51 PM

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Hi there. I got a little problem.
I made some grass with fur. Now I want go with the camera through the grass. When this happens it would be cool if the grass would move like wind would come from the camera. I tried to create a hair system with some hairs on some faces on the ground (and also converted it to hairsystem). Then I attached the hair system to the fur. Now I tried to apply an air fiel to the groundplane where the faces with the hairsystem are. I guess there's a misstake somewhere, the airfiel doesn't affect the fur. Does someone know the solution or know a different way to create a good wind effekt in grass? Thanks a lot, Alex

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# 2 28-08-2012 , 03:33 PM

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Have you created it like this Guy............dave

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# 3 28-08-2012 , 04:48 PM

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hey I did it exactly this way, but the airfield doesn't affect the grass.. don't know.. And there's another Problem. I just don't get it how to move the plane with the grass and hair system. When I parent it I always multiple parenting problems (hair system moves faster), although theres just single parenting. Anothinger thing that's weird is, the grass is within a glass sphere, but when the camera is outside of the sphere you can't see the grass? Thank you!

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# 4 28-08-2012 , 06:05 PM

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Does the fur move at all................dave

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# 5 28-08-2012 , 06:49 PM

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Yeah, for example if i set up the gravity it works

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# 6 28-08-2012 , 08:36 PM

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Try putting a value in the direction for the air field as it stands its set to Y (default) and turn gravity down to say .2, I just tried it and it works for me, you might want to use some thing like a radial field animated over the grass to get the effect you want of grass moving back and forth..............dave

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# 7 29-08-2012 , 12:07 AM

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yeah finally Maya desided to comit suicide... Everytime when I press the play button now I get a fatal error... In EVERY Project file (around 20)... aw that sucks... already installed it new and it's still there.... I have no idea....

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# 8 29-08-2012 , 08:00 AM

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Have you tried deleting the preference folder in my documents...........dave

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# 9 29-08-2012 , 08:45 AM

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hmm thanks just tried it, but the error is still there user added image

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# 10 29-08-2012 , 09:14 AM

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What is the error message..............dave

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# 11 29-08-2012 , 09:17 AM

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When i press the play button it says: "Fatal Error. Attempting to save in C:/Users/ADMINI~1/AppData/Local/Temp/Administrator.20120829.1117.ma"

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# 12 29-08-2012 , 10:03 AM

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What happens if you open a new scene file and press play?.............dave

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# 13 29-08-2012 , 10:38 AM

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Then it works, the error is just in the project files i worked on the last 2 weeks .. I can remember the last thing I did before I got the error was first setting the framerate from 25 fps to 60 fps and then reducing it again to 25 fps without holding the keys to make the animation slower. I'd understand it if this wa shit and just this one file doesn't work anymore but now all the projects don't work anymore?

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