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fromsoysauce

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Trying out new hair technique
« on: August 11, 2015, 11:02:02 am »
I have determined that UVmapping and texturing hair is a lot of hard work because of how irregularly it is shaped. So I have been working on a method to make hair that looks good, nice, and fun to look at with just the sheer geometry and material properties alone.



I'm hoping running it through a cel-shading shader for my games will help it look even more attractive.
« Last Edit: August 11, 2015, 02:31:51 pm by fromsoysauce »
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2015, 01:54:46 pm »
thrillingly brilliant.
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2015, 06:13:58 am »
Here I try out making a very different shape of hair with the same technique. Had to spend some amount of time thinning out the ends of the hair, it previously looked rake like.
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2015, 09:45:56 pm »
Nice, fromsoysauce
post wifreframe too! :)
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2015, 05:37:30 am »
Very beautiful technique. I think it generally looks better and more natural that UV'd hair, although I guess having some sort of small 'grain' in the hair isn't a bad thing. Brilliant work, as usual!
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2015, 02:50:46 pm »
Wire Frame? Sure:


Sorry for the late reply, I've been spending all of my time between last post and now making tons of hair styles using this technique, I've so far done 37 girl hair styles, and that's enough I think, I'm starting guy hair styles today. Here are just a few of the girl hair styles I've made!







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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2015, 06:03:36 pm »
Quote from: fromsoysauce on August 23, 2015, 02:50:46 pm
Wire Frame? Sure:

very nice Fromsoy!
good meshes! easy for to animate and cool render result! :)
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2015, 06:53:30 am »
Yes I feel it is in a way that should fit nicely into easy animating!

Started working on guy hair. Decided to begin with a reboot of Aaron's Hair style from one of my unfinished games:
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2015, 09:31:46 pm »
I was going to comment when you first posted this saying that this reminds me of a few games out there, but I just can't remember who else did this style of hair. However I do believe that the games I am thinking of had used separate pieces of geometry rather than one solid piece.
Either way this looks awesome and looks very optimized!
I kinda want to see this in a geometry shader and have physics applied to it :P
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Re: Trying out new hair technique
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2015, 06:33:55 pm »
FSS, does it save you any processing resources to do it this way instead of with transmapping? It has a certain aesthetic feel to it for sure
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