- critques and tips needed/wanted- My first 3D Hair Modeling project

SureAI

Hey guys,
I’ve been working on a new hairstyle for a character, and I would love to get some opinions and pointers on how I could make it better.

This is the first time I've modeled hair.

The programs I used to make this are:

-Photoshop (Textures)
-3DS Max 2014 (Modeling)
-Skyrim Creation Kit / NifSkope


Statistics:
Polys(triangles): 3.442
Texture size: 1024x1024


Here are some Pictures

3DS Max:




Ingame:


Thank you for any relpies in advanced.

Edit:
Sorry for being such a noob at posting in forums, I've updated the Image links.

Chantel-sky

I suggest using an image uploading service such as imageshack, to get feedback.

PyrZern

Hmm, I never made that hair style before, but I like the look of it. Not sure if it's optimized or not, though.

skyline5gtr

link the pics directly with imgur or something

lotet

I would ad some hair to the actual heads texture to blend them together more, like the beard.
otherwise the "ingame" shot looks pretty good.

but yeah, please link images directly

SureAI

First of all thank you all for commenting

Chantel-sky wrote: »

I suggest using an image uploading service such as imageshack, to get feedback.

skyline5gtr wrote: »

link the pics directly with imgur or something

Updated/Edited.

PyrZern wrote: »

Hmm, I never made that hair style before, but I like the look of it. Not sure if it's optimized or not, though.

Thank you, but I'm not sure what you mean by it being optimized?
could you elaborate a little bit more on that? I'm thankfull for any advice you could give me in that direction.

lotet wrote: »

I would ad some hair to the actual heads texture to blend them together more, like the beard.
otherwise the "ingame" shot looks pretty good.

I'm not quite sure how I can achieve what you are suggesting in the Skyrim CK. It's also my first Time working with ist as well.
If you know anything on that topic please share, I'd love to know.
I tried my own workaround though. You can see it if you look closely in the first picture.

I took part of the heads mesh and copied it into the hair mesh. Combined with texture and alphachannels I tried to create a layer of hair that would block the view through the hair mesh onto the bare skin of the head. Sadly my workaround didnt work out quite how i hoped.
If you have any ideas i could try out instead I'd also like to hear those.

SureAI

Bump.