[Maya] Skinning low poly hair
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Hey.
I'm having a really tough time finding a solution to this. I'm looking for a way to skin low poly hair (for games) in Maya. Since it's for games, I can't use any sort of fancy Maya feature that I can't export, so I don't know any other way of doing hair. I also can't simply skin 100% to the head, because the hair I'm skinning is not just at the top of the head, but down the neck, so it's influenced by more joints.
This blog post right here shows exactly what I need:
http://td-matt.blogspot.no/2011/05/automatic-hairfur-plane-skin-weighting.html#more
Pretty much a way to copy weights from an underlying mesh on to the low poly hair, where every vertex on each individual hair card is the same value to avoid as much deformation as possible.
But the link to the script in that 7 year old blog post is broken. As always.
There's no way that's the only possible answer out there, but that's really all I can find on skinning low poly hair that isn't just conveniently on top of a character's head. It's especially frustrating to have an answer right in your face that you can't use.
I'm willing to check out any sort of tool to achieve this in Maya, as long as it's export friendly.
I'm having a really tough time finding a solution to this. I'm looking for a way to skin low poly hair (for games) in Maya. Since it's for games, I can't use any sort of fancy Maya feature that I can't export, so I don't know any other way of doing hair. I also can't simply skin 100% to the head, because the hair I'm skinning is not just at the top of the head, but down the neck, so it's influenced by more joints.
This blog post right here shows exactly what I need:
http://td-matt.blogspot.no/2011/05/automatic-hairfur-plane-skin-weighting.html#more
Pretty much a way to copy weights from an underlying mesh on to the low poly hair, where every vertex on each individual hair card is the same value to avoid as much deformation as possible.
But the link to the script in that 7 year old blog post is broken. As always.
There's no way that's the only possible answer out there, but that's really all I can find on skinning low poly hair that isn't just conveniently on top of a character's head. It's especially frustrating to have an answer right in your face that you can't use.
I'm willing to check out any sort of tool to achieve this in Maya, as long as it's export friendly.
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I believe there is more advanced solutions than what I can suggest -- for instance, I know Unity has a cloth physics solution, and I'm sure with some googling you can find something being said about how AAA studios are making dynamic hair -- but here is what I would start with: add extra joint(s) for the hair.
Yup, if someone saved this script, would be awesome if he/she could share. I'm looking for it too.