Arnold Groom + texture Xgen Maya (not interactive method)

[@sonotover]

super to-the-point walkthrough, even I couldn't mess this one up. Thanks!

[@LumiereTales]

I watched a lot of videos with a voice about Xgen and colors for fur. But only thanks to your tutorial I found a decision for my issue. Thank you!

[@3djdavid]

Ohh! Thank you!

[@kc3d777]

This is a freaking life saver! I watched so many tutorials for how to do this and this was the only one that was clear and concise enough to actually follow! thanks so much man!

[@nithinpiano9802]

All those videos with voices and yet this simple video helped me out. Thanks so much David!

[@3djdavid]

You're welcome Nithin Piano

[@mykhaylovuchastyy9947]

David, Thank you so F%#KING much man! I literally spent 9 hours trying to figure out the workflow for this.

[@3djdavid]

my pleasure

[@YemaConAzucar]

El unico video que usa un aiUserDataColor node y el unico metodo que me funciono, muchas gracias!

[@3djdavid]

Me alegra mucho!

[@pawanbangera2050]

Hello suppose i have two different color aiuserdata color how can i connect them both? please help.

[@p0rcupine]

Hello, not sure if you still keep up on this, but this looks like the hair reads ptex placed under xgen dir inside project folder. Is that correct?

[@baleygrflammingeye2325]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial !!! I was looking a tone of tutorials and none of them work for texturing the hair Do you know if there's a way for this to work with aiStandardHair instead of aiStandardSurface?

[@YemaConAzucar]

Yes, just connect the same aiUserDataColor node to the base color and/or the diffuse color of you AiStanHair shader.

[@pawanbangera2050]

Hello i also did the same added custom texture to aiuserdata node and texture appeared but when i connected the aiuserdata colour to aistandard hair the texture disapeared. what could be the issue? someone please help please.

[@yaroslavb.2589]

Hi David, your tutorial is very helpful to me, thank you. I have one question when I use more than one description in one collection, while when rendering a scene only the first description uses a special shader. How to fix it? I tried to use one custom shader for different descriptions or different shaders for each description, but the results are the same. Sure, I can use multiple collections, but I don't think that's right.

[@3djdavid]

Hi!, you can use "color" for one aiuserdatacolor and "color2" for another aiuserdatacolor(dont forget create in second description shader "color2" and click save ptex). Work fine!

[@yaroslavb.2589]

@@3djdavid hmm interesting, but it seems I did it and had no result. hmm maybe i did something wrong. I'll try again. Thank your for quickly answer

[@3djdavid]

@@yaroslavb.2589 in time 8:25 you must have two image, check that please.

[@yaroslavb.2589]

@@3djdavid Thanks for the answer. Yes, I have did it wrong and I did it again and it all have worked. Thanks

[@3djdavid]

@@yaroslavb.2589 SUPER!

[@AndraAhi]

This works with arnold gpu in maya 2025. For anyone wondering. I dont think it worked with gpu when this was originally posted.

[@CherylynnLima]

Do you know how to get xgen to work with arnold in 2019? i can't get it to render in the arnold viewport!

[@megavisartguru]

that what am using and it works fine checkout some rendered images at my instagram handle megavis_ceo