Thanks for your response, Dave.

The normals do not seem to be the issue. I have checked that both the face normals and the fur normals are facing the correct outward position.

Hello all,

Im in the process of modeling a cat character, and im having trouble getting the fur to behave predictably. I run Maya 2012 on Windows 7 64-bit, i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07 GHz, NVidia GeForce...