Of course it is a question of principle, I don't use AI, but should this have been the only reason why I ask my question here... I mean, this would've been questionnable on what motivates me to interact with other users. Else I wouldn't have posted other subjects or learnt anything from this place in my whole career, I…
I was thinking about giving it a go, especially since you probably could also go the other way round and convert your vertex normals to hair guides (again), but I would have to lean heavily on ChatGPT or similar for it if I don't want it to take forever with my rudimentary knowledge base, and I don't know how we feel about…
my idea is actually the other way around, being able to edit/comb these and then baking those into a texture. painting flow maps is just really cumbersome :) because on stylized hairstrands its a looooot of strokes, a looooot of blending things, while its just a few vertices/normals to bend