🧵 Hair alpha textures?
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:54:02 UTC No. 942323
How do you guys making pic related(alpha textures for eyebrows and pube)?
I tried fiber shop and it did give me the good results, but I cant export it alpha map, not allowed in the free version I think
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Apr 2023 11:27:36 UTC No. 942329
/questions/ Simple answer is draw them in photoshop or make a substance designer file with lines with a falloff and distort with perlin noise
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Apr 2023 21:20:21 UTC No. 942360
>>942323
Someone posted here a decent workflow if you're using Blender
>>941772
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Apr 2023 16:25:20 UTC No. 943090
>>942323
Make the fibers in xgen. With guides or curves you wish.
Then once you are happy, export the xgen descriptions as Mel files.
Once you do that, reimport all the Mel files into a new Maya.
Now for this step you need simple pipe addon for Maya. It's free.
Once you get that, add the necessary thickness and take them into zbrush/blender. I prefer zbrush.
Tick the mask border option and thin the roots and the tips accordingly.
Now export the thinned files from zbrush back into Maya and bake them onto a square plane.
Bake a .dds texture as it is the highest quality texture. And you really want to bake it in Maya only, marmoset, substance, xnormals won't give you good alpha maps