yo just had a question about hair, I was wondering wats the best way to make hair, think long flowing hair, and i dont want to use hair particles in maya I rather model it or alpha it.
If you don't like using Maya to make the strips like Paul did you can manually paint the hair strips like in Ben's tutorial (the second one). Also take a look at how other artists and games have done their hair. Final fantasy games have some great examples of low poly long hair done nicely.
From 2007 GDC there's a PDF of the presentation called "Hair Styling - A Teenager's Dream, An Artist's Nightmare" from the folks at BioWare. Some tips & pics in there if you can find it.
I happen to be making hair right now too. Great Varga hair tutorial by Paul there.
Here's an addition to the Varga hair tutorial he forgot ...
EDIT- asked about viewport transparencies...but its easy once you find the proper config for your video card I think. For my 8800 it was just color+alpha trans+high quality view mode in maya.
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http://www.paultosca.com/varga_hair.html
http://poopinmymouth.com/process/hair_tutorial/hair_01.htm
If you don't like using Maya to make the strips like Paul did you can manually paint the hair strips like in Ben's tutorial (the second one). Also take a look at how other artists and games have done their hair. Final fantasy games have some great examples of low poly long hair done nicely.
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=65751&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1
http://www.vigville.com/tutorials/hair/
https://www.cmpevents.com/sessions/GD/S4585i1.pdf
Here's an addition to the Varga hair tutorial he forgot ...
EDIT- asked about viewport transparencies...but its easy once you find the proper config for your video card I think. For my 8800 it was just color+alpha trans+high quality view mode in maya.