Cut a Rug with the Blender 3.5 Hair System

In this video, we use the new hair system in Blender 3.5 to create a small throw rug. Get the project file at my Patreon, linked below!
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[@soapiestwaffles]

this is actually one of the best tutorial videos I've come along, no fluff, no long talking, no music... perfection. Thank you for this

[@arch.blender1178]

I really appreciate small lessons you demonstrate in your videos, like the edge neighbours/delete geometry method in the geonodes. A lightbulb went on when I saw that, thank you

[@JohnnyMatthews]

You're very welcome!

[@ChristinaMcKay]

Great as always, thanks for sharing. FYI: You don't have to triangulate the mesh. For outer edges there is only one neighbour face, so you can use a compare node with the option Greater than and a value of 1, without triangulating.

[@beyondblender]

Great video, thanks for sharing. I learnt alot from this and will for sure incorporate these techniques in one of my future videos 👏

[@JohnnyMatthews]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Ahadanimates]

thank you bro

[@JohnnyMatthews]

No problem 🙂🤘

[@jacquese.pretorius8825]

Hi @Johnny Matthews great tutorial as usual. Are there any new nodes in the pipeline from your side?

[@JohnnyMatthews]

Not at the moment. I had a bit of burnout and am trying to ease my way back in.

[@burada8993]

Thank you, so good. At 09:50, increasing the hair density to solve the texture sparsity problem makes sense but I didn't understand how come adding more cuts to the carpet's plane manage to improve the texture of the hairs? Does this technique have a name or wiki page that I can learn?

[@JohnnyMatthews]

I think it might have to do with UVs but I’m not 100 sure why it works.

[@goartist]

5:24 you meant mm, not cm. but anyways, nice demo as always, thanks

[@JohnnyMatthews]

Yeah probably. I’m a slave to imperial measurements but I try to use metric as much as possible.

[@ultraviolet7129]

Great video! What would be the best workflow to export the new hair nodes into another software?

[@daniellee6912]

apply the geometry nodes and convert to mesh.

[@raulcardenas58]

Thanks for the tutorial, I have a problem, when I set the thickness nothing changes, it continues in lines, even though I exaggerate the values ​​in Radius, what could it be? I keep seeing only lines

[@srvtheone]

It appears in Render Mode

[@mrdol]

sooo this 'easy hair/fur' preset has no setting for the curves lenght? O_o that seems like a very basic and fundamental thing to have when working with fur/hair. I'm assuming this because you had to use the Trim curve geo-node just to shorten it.

[@JohnnyMatthews]

There is a trim hair curves node in the essentials set. I just decided to do it this way. If you sculpt the base curves and grow or shrink them it will grow or shrink the surrounding hairs. But for this I wanted it to be completely even.

[@danialsoozani]

that was very useful. specially the trim curve. is there a node to increase the hair length rather than grow in sculpt mode?

[@JohnnyMatthews]

Not that I know of

[@DanielPartzsch]

I think there's one in the new essentials hair nodes asset library. If I remember correctly it's the one for trimming as well but this group also includes to option to grow the strands.

[@danialsoozani]

@@DanielPartzsch Oh thanks a lot! I'll give it a try!

[@danialsoozani]

@@DanielPartzsch It's working perfectly!!! thanks a lot!

[@JohnnyMatthews]

Good catch!

[@edkins1]

Not the best tutorial actually