[WIP] Blender Hair card workflow

X³²Lapis

I've been trying to figure out a workflow for myself creating hair cards in Blender. I tried a bunch of add-ons but I'm too smooth brain to get them to work for me so through a lot of struggle and perseverance I finally managed to make something that I enjoy and helped.

oh I didn't expect the images to be so big, I'm not too sure how to make it smaller in the post
I write a little bit about the struggle and process I ended up going through for this here for those interested.

I will probably come back to revisit this when I get further with the model. I want to check how it looks in engine before tweaking, I don't like how you can easily see the planes in Blender. So I will leave that to when I see it in engine first.

pxgeek

looks nice!

I too, have been looking into blender's hair options...seems like there are a gazillion of them!

Eric Chadwick

Nice! What about the shader for the hair? What did you end up using, and were you able to leverage anisotropy for those stretched specular highlights?

Ruz

I just use particle hair, convert ti to cards with hair tool addon, then sculpt the cards further. works ok, but never quite perfect
Blenders new hair oprions are pretty good too ie geometry nodes, but I am not keen to switch over completely yet
hair tools addon has its own shader with a nice anisotropic look