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.
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/
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…
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.