Xgen -> Alembic Hair not showing correctly in Unreal.

hwaminjung

Hello. This is my first time trying out xgen and rendering hair in Unreal. I've been following some online tutorials and I've encounted this problem which I am not sure how to tackle.
I've exported the xgen hair into an Alembic file, and imported it into Unreal. However the result in Unreal is visually missing a lot of the hair.
Does anybody know what I can do to tackle this issue? Thank you.

BTDarmstad

Exporting hair from Xgen to Unreal Engine can be a little finicky. I don't know how you have exported your groom, but it looks like the hair is there, just not visible. I would say a good place to start is going through this setup and downloading the script for converting Xgen hair into groom. Using this method also gives you root UVs, meaning you can create a custom color map for your character's hair if you want that.

hwaminjung

BTDarmstad said:

Exporting hair from Xgen to Unreal Engine can be a little finicky. I don't know how you have exported your groom, but it looks like the hair is there, just not visible. I would say a good place to start is going through this setup and downloading the script for converting Xgen hair into groom. Using this method also gives you root UVs, meaning you can create a custom color map for your character's hair if you want that.

I made my hair with Xgen, which I converted into Interactable groom (Generate - Convert to Interactable Groom), and then export as alembic (Generate - Cache -Export Cache)
but thank you for sharing that plug-in! I have a feeling that will work great haha, so I'll try it out