Hi there! I saw the update video and I found it interesting especially cross profiling feature. I don't use hair tool anymore but I think it is worthwhile studying about how to use this tool for short male hair and beard so maybe in the future, I will.

Ok thanks, which tool do you use now for your workflow? Thanks for taking the time to reply.

@@3dToGameready-u4w No problem man! I use Zbrush as hair styling tool which you can see me making hair using zbrush in my latest video.

Awesome I will check those video out.

Hi there! yes you can. In unreal, you can just paint weight on the hair and let the hair physics do the work for you :) I believe unreal has good hair system built in by default and also you can use plugin like Kawaii physics to simplify the workflow.

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 You know any good resources for that? Most tutorials I found where using Maya or other expensive third party software unfortunately .. it's really hard to find a tutorial on making a character in blender and rigging + animating it in unreal... All tutorials that were doing it with blender modles, were dodging hair, by just making short hair characters in blender (therefor they didn't have to show how to implement the hair in UE) or had chars with hats, helmets etc.

@@jorricktv9550 I know some but they are all paid course and quite expensive and yes, they all use many third party software. if you wanna go just with blender, it's gonna be hard for sure. but I would recommend checking out youtube channel called " Royal Skies" . This channel deal with so many useful information so it could help.

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 omg... so helpfull <3 was following the channel already, but looking for this topic in specific in connection with his channel I found the solution for what i was looking for .... thank you so much ^^

If you wanna do this in blender, you can use curve and curve modifier. its setup is tedious and I don't like it so I used the zbrush. If you are not familiar with curve modifier, there are plenty of videos on that topic on youtube.

Hi there! thank you very much! I used the rendering software called Marmoset toolbag 4. It's really powerful and industry standard for real time game artists.

Hi there. For the fur, I would recommend you to watch developer's video(Bartosz Styperek) titled " How to make fur for games in blender" . There are many ways of creating fur, but it teaches you simple and easy of creating fur using hair tool :)

you can just change the theme to Maya and adjust background colour to achieve similar result like mine.

Thanx ​@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358

If you are using newer version of hair tool you can't do this since everything got updated and how things work were changed as well. Only way you can use hair tool right now is by learning how to use new system or downgrade hair tool version.

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 Thank you! I just found out about the update recently! What version of Hair tool and Blender were you using in this video?

@@danielnorton9803 I don't remember the exact verision number since I don't update the tool often but I think I was using blender 3.1 and hair tool before 2.35

Hello! so yeah that's idea way of doing it but If I remember correctly, it didn't really work well when I tried. You can experiment it though haha

Hi there! I'm sure you can make good hair texture using hair tool addon but Fibershop is so much more powerful and flexible tool to use. You can make hair texture either procedurally, manually, or both at the same time. This really makes the hair texture production process easy and fast and you can create basically any type of texture you need efficiently. And moreover, you can apply modifiers at baking stage, and it allows you to customize hair texture in any way you desire(eg. colour,Ao,SSS...). So yeah, if you are character artist and need to make lots of hair textures, then maybe it's good idea to purchase Fibershop. It has very affordable perpetual license so if you like what you see in their official Fibershop videos, then just go for it.

Yes you can,using curve and curve modifier but setup can be tedious and I personally find that it's hard to use.

Aw thank you so much for watching my videos and also for kind words! I really applicate it!

Hey! thank you for leaving nice comments and I'm glad I could be your help :) Since you are also zbrush bro , I'm sure you are gonna love this workflow once you get used to it. have fun!

Hi there! yeah, hair tool has gotten bit harder to learn and use after big hair tool update. Because of that, I have implemented new hair creation workflow myself and as a result, I don't use it as much. And unfortunately , there are not as many resources to learn from as it used to be. so if you are struggling to understand how to use this tool, I would recommend you to join hair tool discord sever. There are many talented people there so you can ask question to get help. second option is to downgrade the hair tool version (version before big update) . this is inconvenient but at least it will work and you can follow most of hair tool tutorial videos.

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 Hi tom, yeah it is pretty tough to learn, i only got the tool cause of the ability to use curves to place cards, is that possible without the hair tool addon? the curves in base blender are very tricky to use

@@Vduke735 Yes, you can do that without addon but, it is so frustrating to use for sure. curves in blender tend to spin around uncontrollably and makes it harder to place hair cards precisely and besides it takes more time and effort to set things up. If you have access to Zbrush, you can use curve modifier to place cards without any problem( which I'm going to make video about soon) But otherwise yeah, your best bet is to use older version of hair tool.

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 i see! i will learn about this curve modifer in zbrush, most likely will use old hair tool for now too so i can figure things out. also can't wait for your return! your videos are always super helpful :)

Hi there! So I think I can make tutorial for that but this project is quite old so If I make character with fur in the future, I definitely will. :)

Hi there! hm that is so weird. I have no idea why that is happening. Does the same thing happen when you make other type of IMM curve brush?

​@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 i got the same problem on the triangular shape , the rect shape is fine but there are a bunch of face when iam using frame mesh . Is there anyway to fix the tri . Hope for your reply !

@@libri6656 hmmm did you assign 3 polygroups to triangular one? If so, then when you use frame mesh by polygroup border, you should be only getting 3 edges where you can use IMM hair brush to get attached to. I tried to replicate the same problem that you and another person was having but I couldn't do it , so I'm sorry if I can't be your help.

NIceee! I honestly believe this is best hair modelling tool for blender so I hope you enjoy the learning process of it and make tons of hair styles!

Hello! No, hair tool does not have restriction on what kind of hair style you can make. you can either start from scratch and make whatever you want or you can start from template as a starting point and build things up from there to save some time. so basically, this tool allows you to make any hair style ( including hyper realistic and super cartoony hairstyle) and I honestly believe this is best hair modelling tool for blender.

Ooh hey that's really cool! I'm going to check it out later then. thanks for letting me know :)

I watched your 8 videos and didn't see when you did that, what video is it?

Hi! thank you so much for watching! so for the hair texture, I'm using my own custom hair texture and imported to zbrush so if you need hair texture, you will need to either create one yourself using something like xgen or fibershop or you could buy from market place. I'm sorry I wasn't really clear about that. :(

oh, i see. thank you very much @@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358

Hi! sorry , if you are using recent updated version of hair tool, I have no idea how to do that. I only use old version of hair tool and your best option is to go watch tutorials made by developer of this tool. Sorry I couldn't be your help. :(

Hello there duke! thank you for the nice word. I appreciate it! so when you say backface, do you mean like backface setting in the brush menu ? if that is a case, I turned it off :)

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358hi Tom! so at 1:04 the card you use has a back face on the inside?

@@duke110 ahh I see! So the answer is no. It’s just single sided mesh and I was just using double in the visibility menu to see backface. Hope it helps.

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 ah i see thank you! i really like this workflow and would love for you to do more on it, maybe on the placement of your cards? thanks again! :)

Hey no worries at all! so for the information about custom texture, you can check out "Let's make real time hair in blender + hair tool addon ep5" set up section. And for the issue you are having curves, Sorry I only know and use old version of hair tool before everything changed so I cannot help you with that.

Aw thank you so much for the kind word! I'm still learning a lot about hair creation everyday but I'm glad my videos could help you out a bit.

Hi! so what kind of problem are you having with your hair brush??

Hi there! and yes It's gotten big update some time ago and it kind of changed everything. whilst it is super awesome tool for specific workflow but I found the better workflow for myself so I stopped using this addon and have no idea how the baking scene works now. Sorry I couldn't be your help.

Hi there! so if you meant IMM hair brush, then you can create triangle shaped object, just like the I showed you at 01:12 in the video, and then just created the IMM curve brush. I didn't do anything special so it's gonna be easier for you to make one for yourself :) And thank you for kind word! I've never considered my voice was good so it is really nice to receive that compliment!

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 Thanks, I'm just so lazy sometimes that I thought why would I make a brush when there's a link to it and I can download it or something, haha I really like your videos, they are so cute and cozy. Do you have an artstation or some other social network? I'd love to get to know your work better :)

Could you do a video short to show how it's done please?

​@@Lanthiren Sorry im super busy. But watch this u will get all the info u need on how to properly unwrap with creased edges. Pay close attention because he goes a bit fast but he knows what hes doing. search this title- ZBrush 2023 - UV Map Unwrap, and cut your seams based on your creasing!. From Michael Pavlovich. If u want to create an already creased Mesh just watch a regular tut about how to create your own IMM brush then u can set the creased edges there and once is done unwrap it using the previous method from the video. Understand the concept how Z brush detect creased edges as UV seams and combine it with the technique of this video and u maybe can crease BY PG(polygroups) to make it even faster.

Hi! Thank you so much for watching my videos and I'm so glad that they were useful to you! I'm always trying to learn and improve my skills and workflow so I hope to share much better stuff in the future as I learn more about hair card creation knowledge:)

Hi! I'm so glad this video was useful and gave you new method to make real time hair. I'm constantly trying to improve or find new workflow so hopefully I can share much more stuff on this channel in the future :)

Yeah, it's really old game haha

HI thanks! I used textool for my uv work. You can see 02:28 in the video about that :)

Hi! thank you for watching! I love Zbrush and I prefer to do pretty much everything in it so I'm glad I found a new hair styling workflow haha And yeah you are absolutely right. I did experiment with updated hair tool system and made some hair but more and more I study about hair styling, I started to feel I don't need all the extra feature hair tool provides and a lot of artist I respect like Johan Lithvall use hair chunk method so it's just that workflow hair tool offers doesn't suit me very well. But at the end of the day, it's just my preference so it doesn't change the fact hair tool is amazing adoon for sure.

Yeah, I noticed you really got into hair styiling. With time I also geting more excited about this part of character creation... And with it I wonder more and more do Maya is needed to reach this "profesional" step in hair styling. Almost every good hair styler use Maya. What do you think ? Are you gonna use it in future or stay w ith blender/zbrush? @@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358