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GUIDE SNAP
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  1. This tool has two main functions:For Daz Studio workflow where the creation of hair does not originate from Maya Xgen and the guides need to be snapped to tubes/cards or curves.
  2. Merging curves that goes into a French braid style hair.
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Merge Side Curves into French Braid
  1. Use the Curve To Braids Tool to create center curves.
  2. NOTE: The 'first CV' of Maya curve need to be "sitting on" or "through" the scalp geo, it can not be floating in 3D space.
  3. Select a guide, and shift select a Maya curve and click Snap Guide.
  4. Remove excess points and sculpt the guide better to fit with the hair flow.
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You can also snap a guide to another guide. 
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Daz Studio Users
​As the snapping is still based on Maya curves, you will need to convert all the tubes/cards into Maya curves first.
If the geometries are tubes, make sure Extract From is set to “Tubes”. 
​Set to “Cards” if they come in as cards.

Then select all the tubes/cards (NOT the groups), and click on the ‘Create Center Curve’ button. This will create a curve in the ‘center’ of each tube/card. Please note, this will create a ‘xgt_guideSnap_curves’ group and the extracted curve(s) will be put under it.
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To snap single guide to curve, select the guide first, and shift select the a curve,  then click “Snap Guide”.
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To batch snap, select the Xgen description node (Or the subdPatch node), and shift select the curve ‘group’ (‘xgt_guideSnap_curves’ ).
Click ‘Batch Snap Guide’. 
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  • HOME
  • GET IT
  • Maya Curve Tools
    • Curve From Tube/Card
    • Curve Fill From Center Curve
    • Curve Trim From Mesh
    • Curve Smart Flip
    • Curve CV Rebuild Tool
    • Curve Snap Tool
    • Curve Cut Tool
    • PaintFX to Curves
    • Curve Clump/Repel
    • Curve Manipulators
    • Curve to Proxy Tubes
    • Curve to Proxy Cards
    • Curve To Twists
    • Curve To Curls
    • Curve To Braids
    • Curve From Path
    • Curve Copy/Paste
    • Curve Pivot To Root
    • Curve Add Tool
    • Curve Sculpt Tool
  • XGen Utility Tools
    • Guide Color Tool
    • Guide Toggle
    • Multi Description Preview
    • Remove Shading Attributes
    • Global Expression Sort
    • Multi Clump Bake
    • Guide Cut
    • Guide Check
    • Guide Snap
    • Guides To Curves
    • XGen PTEX Tool
    • XGen PTEX Shortcuts
    • XGen Blendshape Tool
    • XGen Spline Transfer
    • XGen IG Guides To Curves
    • XGen Rename Guide Collection
    • XGen Rename Guide Description
    • XGen Rename Guide Scalp Geo
    • XGen Modifier Rename
    • XGen Deep Backup
  • Installation
    • System Requirement
    • Installation Guide
    • Getting An Update
    • Installation Q/A
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Version Logs
  • Contact