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Strange Vellum Hair behaviour

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lloydwood
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I'm getting some odd results whilst simming some tufts of hair.

I'm copying the tufts onto some scattered points and then testing with gravity. Instead of the tufts falling straight down, I get an odd push along the positove Z axis which leads to an un-natural look.

I cannot figure out what is causing this. I've tried the simplest setup I can think of and I still get the odd result. I've attached and example file and any insight would be great.

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weird_tufts.hiplc (1.4 MB)
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tamte
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it's caused by wrong p@orient attribute, you can add Orient Along Curve SOP and let it compute proper p@orient along hair curves

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weird_tufts_fix.hipnc (1.4 MB)

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lloydwood
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Ah. After the copy. Of course, because the orientation wouldn't be updated. Thanks Tomas!
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lloydwood
Ah. After the copy. Of course, because the orientation wouldn't be updated. Thanks Tomas!
you can do it before, the p@orient is by default Quaternion so it would get transformed correctly for each copy
the problem is your hair curves didn't have correct orient at any point
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