Some help with strand size taper

[adrencg]

If you go to the ICE menu, and go to Model Library and select Dynamic Hair there's a sphere with dynamic strands that imports. I was able to change the profile of each of the guide strands by going into the Create Strands node and setting the "size profile".

But how do I get that attribute to transfer to the filler strands point cloud? The filler strands have the same diameter all the way down their length and I'd like to make them look like the tapered guides. One thing I can do is not use fillers and just set the number of guides really high -- but that slows down the calculation.


GUIDES tapered properly



FILLERS + GUIDES uniform diameter

[rray]

Doesn't the filler point has a create strands node itself where you could set the profile?
It's not the same as inheriting the profile from the guides of course.
What you could try for that.. copy&paste the tree where the StrandPosition attribute gets set, and replace StrandPosition with StrandSize (not sure how it's called exactly).

[adrencg]

Thanks but I figured it out. Upon drilling deeper in to the filler compound, I found an fcurve node to control the taper.