XGen Editor Descriptions menu

Create Description

Opens the Create XGen Description window, which lets you create hair, fur and instance geometry.

See Create hair and fur with gooming brushes, Create hair or fur with spline curves, and Instance geometry with XGen.

Duplicate Description

Creates a copy of the selected Description, including all patch bindings and guides, and then adds it to the same Collection as the original Description.

Move Description to Collection

Lets you move a selected Description from its current Collection to another one.

Select Description

Selecting this highlights the currently active Description (selected in the XGen Editor) in the Outliner.

Bind Patches

Lets you change which faces are bound to patches for the selected Description. For information about Bind Patches options see the XGen Bind Patches submenu.

Hide/Show Patches based on geometry visibility

Lets you specify that when the bound geometry is hidden, Maya hides the bound patches as well.

For example, select this option to hide patches bound to hidden mesh objects.

Set Stray Percentage

Opens the Set Stray Percentage window, which sets a percentage value or an expression to specify which primitives to consider stray.

A stray primitive is one that is not controlled by a modifier, map, mask, or an attribute value.

Delete Description

Deletes the current Description.