Creating low poly hair technique

swarmedia83

 I've been following along with this tutorial : http://www.3dartistonline.com/news/2015/04/how-do-i-create-real-time-hair-for-games

 I'm stuck on step 11 because I have no clue where the curve is drawn on. I think the tutorial assumes you would know the process. Does anyone have any insight on this? Or maybe followed this same tutorial at one point and figured it out/knew how to continue? Any information would be greatly appreciated! 

Thanks!

Eric Chadwick

In step 10 he explains you draw the curves on a plane. You could use a cube or any flat surface, really.

swarmedia83

Ok, but how would I go about baking that onto the hair planes I already have created?

AtticusMars

You don't, you bake them down to a flat plane, positioning the hair according to where your hair planes UVs are. Or you can just bake them down to a flat plane then move your UVs afterward to align them.

swarmedia83

 You say move the hair where the UVs are, but in what software can i do that? How would i go about doing that? The tutorial says to bake in xnormal, can it be bakes in another software?

Sorry for the dumb questions, but this whole process is pretty alien to me. I typically just sculpt the hair, but i'm pushing myself to learn this process. 

swarmedia83

Ok so im trying to lay down the hair strands on a plane in zbrush, and everytime i do zbrush just crashes on me. Now im really stuck. 

EDIT: Ok so it seems it crashes after i add the UV texture on the plane and then draw the curve on it...