hair alpha mapping

sherrell · Feb 2008

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.

TheSplash · Feb 2008

Here are two good tutorials that should help.

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.

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2008

Here's an old thread that has some more ideas, plus images and links.
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=65751&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1

Mark Dygert · Feb 2008

I made a quick tutorial about baking hair/fur to poly strips. It works pretty well if you have poly strips in mind when you start.

http://www.vigville.com/tutorials/hair/

sherrell · Feb 2008

thanx dudes really alot of help.

sir-knight · Feb 2008

any resources on how to tackle the hairline? I'm having a bunch of trouble with that myself.

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2008

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.

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2008

Ah, here. Check out pages 15 and 16.
https://www.cmpevents.com/sessions/GD/S4585i1.pdf

sherrell · Feb 2008

hey cool, i actually have a friend that works at bioware

sir-knight · Feb 2008

very awesome, thanks

TWilson · Feb 2008

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.

hair alpha mapping

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