Highest Quality Hair Rendering in Marmoset Toolbag

[@AndreNMailho]

Thank you so much for this tuto J. The workflow from Xgen to marmoset, and how to configure the hair in marmoset it's just gold. ♥

[@TriGon_Art]

Man she looks so nice!

[@chrisjustin4115]

Notification gang🔥💪

[@artofjhill]

Thank you! 💪

[@JUYAN16]

I have literallly been looking for this exact tutorial for years! THANK GOD, THANK YOU JESUS!!!

[@ChaosWolfNinja]

WOW! This is awesome! Love the final output! Thanks!

[@artofjhill]

🙏 hope it helps

[@ChaosWolfNinja]

@@artofjhill Most definitely! I have a few projects to test this out.

[@Solo_3d]

I know i said it so many times bro, but the way u give info is sooooooo light! Easy, fun, on point! Iam not gonna stop saying that this dude is underrated! Baddest in the game! And look what he does? Such a gold info for free. This sht is crazy. BTW Ur base meshes are true joy to work with man! Anyway ,thank a lot for what u do my man! For real my dawg! Certified serial killa ! I follow u for some good time on instagram and u always inspire ppl to do sht! All best J! And really ,thank you!

[@artofjhill]

Thank you for the comment man! Glad you’re liking it :) Keep making stuff!

[@PeteGavrov]

Xgen to Unreal

[@artofjhill]

gonna happen

[@ronnelpanciles3805]

Thanks for this sir J!!! I put on hold my work on hair for a character and focused on the clothing since I was trying to figure out how to approach the hair. Thank you for this really helpful sir!

[@artofjhill]

Glad it’s useful!

[@Swich_OFF]

Thx for your time and effort explaining your process, J!

[@artofjhill]

Np I hope it helps

[@najeebenton862]

This is so inspiring to watch. I'm still in school for this, and I just got into making characters with hair and clothes! Now I know a way of doing it without the hair cards. Thank you, J!!!

[@minivipers]

many thanks J... learn much things from you...

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it. Keep making stuff

[@isabel5066]

this is very good! im gonna try this ^^

[@GonzaEstayArt]

Man thanks for uploading these tutorials this inspired me a lot

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear that

[@josh-ed7je]

Game changer for modelers who want to present their work. So many high quality renders can be produced in marmoset without waiting 8 hours to render in Maya for one single camera shot

[@artofjhill]

💯

[@jono8326]

Thanks for sharing again and Happy Holidays!

[@artofjhill]

Happy Holidays!

[@roxtube123]

J is the man ! awesome tutorial :D

[@DocZenith]

Really helpful J! Interesting as I consider my rendering options for 2022 :)

[@artofjhill]

for sure

[@rhajandre707]

Thank you very much for this content J hill! your videos have helped me a lot

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it!

[@iamzizo]

thank you for this tutorial, very helpful

[@artofjhill]

Glad it was helpful

[@Santanazation]

Thank you J Hill! Helped me a lot!

[@artofjhill]

glad it was helpful!

[@ZephrusPrime]

Dude you always come through!

[@artofjhill]

🦾

[@LikeAwesome]

thank you for another great tutorial! much love!

[@nisianglian6263]

Thank you sooooooo muchhhh.. Really really love this tutorial.

[@artofjhill]

I’m glad you like it :)

[@Q36BN]

6:29 that CD bit just cracked me up. LOL... oh wait, am i that old...

[@artofjhill]

We are getting old 😶

[@kishore8084]

Hello sir. Your tutorials are great on KZbin

[@aleksandrarozhko1063]

your tutorials are very cool, thanks!!!

[@artofjhill]

for sure, I hope it helps

[@alexry6025]

Another banger!👌

[@artofjhill]

🙏

[@colinreecerob4912]

The Gollum comment had me dying

[@ProMetal11]

Awesome ! Thank you for this tutorial J ! Would you do an Arnold rendering tutorial of the hair as well ?

[@artofjhill]

yes I will

[@alexbobyr8076]

Thank You for the great tutorial.

[@artofjhill]

Thanks for watching and I hope it helps

[@athelstanm7298]

Thank You for this Great Tutorial!! Just a quick question. Which Marmoset Version are you using in this tutorial? Mine doesn't have "Transmission" and "Clearcoat Reflection". Thank You!!

[@artofjhill]

4 I hope it helps

[@JUYAN16]

J I wanted to ask, can this same technique be used to convert the hair to cards instead of polygons? Then you just make your own hair texture in PS and add it to the cards?

[@cyrielkilller]

Thanks you so much!!

[@artcomplex.studio]

wow love it

[@elartistadelosfamosos]

Awesome stuff, I'm curious to know, Which graphics card are you using for rendering in Marmoset? How long did it take you to render the turtable?. Thanks

[@artofjhill]

a lot of this is on my 2017 iMac Pro with a Radeon GPU and took a couple minutes per image. I ended up rendering the turntable on my PC with a 3090 and the whole thing took a few minutes total

[@artisticdimension]

thank you!!

[@leviathan11visage]

This is a great tutorial I am going to be using this for future projects. You mentioned that your render time took roughly 2 mins per fram to do. I was curious what videocard you have pr had at the time of this video. I am looking ti buy a new video card and I am wondering if a rtx 3070, 3080 or 3090 would be the best option for me. I do marmoset rendering in a professional capacity so I want to ensure that I am able to have peak performance but that I won't be getting something that will be overkill.

[@thanoszag6563]

Hi, thank you for your tutorials. May I ask you, do you have any tutorial, about haircards and how to set up a proper shader in Unreal?

[@artofjhill]

I don’t. Don’t want to make hair cards tbh

[@thanoszag6563]

@@artofjhill but in the game industry, do they use groom system for the characters, or is it performance expensive?

[@jaumserafim]

thank you! you are awesome

[@artofjhill]

Glad I could help!

[@dagu20]

Nice video as always! But what about hair cards? is it still used in current games?

[@artofjhill]

Yes it is still the predominant method for games. But tedious and time consuming to do and doesn’t look great most of the time.

[@hrj3d]

Hey i have question though suppose i have tiger skin texture nd i want to follow the exact tiger skin pattern texture to the hair in marmoset how can i do that?

[@gn8073]

Will you be doing a highest quality realtime hair(hair cards) rendering in Marmoset？That would be super helpful.

[@artofjhill]

Not any time soon. Hair cards are a pain to do and not the highest quality I would say

[@HellaRocksa]

Thank you❤

[@danielanderson5828]

Hey! Currently working on some grooming for a project now and looking into how I will present it, just wondering how come you didnt do the eye lashes or brows this way? Cheers for the awesome video!

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it, I hope it helps. I did do those that way :)

[@danielanderson5828]

@@artofjhill Oh neat! Thanks man! 😀

[@madmodder]

Quick question. If I want to get a job in games, should I be using hair cards in my portfolio pieces or can I use xgen style hair? Same question goes for clothing. Should I retopo and then pose? Or pose and use the raw marvelous designer cloth?

[@artofjhill]

Need at least one strong example of hair cards. It’s still the most common workflow by far and that won’t change for a long time. Hair curves is probably less than 1% of hair for games.

[@madmodder]

@@artofjhill Hey, thanks for the response! Im working on a portfolio piece now so that answer came just in time.

[@Alexander_S_K]

Although the final result is beautiful, can this be considered "real time hair"? It seems too heavy to be able to run in games. Im asking since you have industry insight and maybe this is something new that im not aware of but does the method you showed replace the hair card workflow? Or is it just a quick way to render your xgen hair in a realtime renderer like marmoset?

[@artofjhill]

It’s a quick way to render XGen hair in a real time renderer

[@owl5523]

AMAZING

[@Vashie]

Would you consider marmoset a better way to render out your scenes then using unreal?

[@artofjhill]

Different not necessarily better. It’s simpler to use and can get good results fast. Good for presentations and quick stuff. UE can do a lot more but takes more time and effort to do

[@nimapoorarshadi]

Thanks for this awsome tutorial! For realtime portraits which one do you prefer ue5 or marmoset ?

[@artofjhill]

Depends. For just presentations marmoset is simple and good quality. UE can do a lot more but takes a lot more time and effort to do

[@kurushmasalawala2852]

Hey first of all the worklow was damm good , and secondly can you Please make a tutorial for fibermesh hair and coverting them into xgen primitives and rendering into marmoset. it will be very helpful thanks

[@artofjhill]

🙏

[@tafraoutaboubakr5453]

Thank you so much for this spot :) like and subscribe

[@johnbenjamingalzote2846]

j hill when i export the hair from xgen to unreal should i turn off the facing camera aswell? thanks for the wonderful video and inspiration, im insterested in shader of hair in unreal like from xgen to unreal process that you made, it is rare to find videos about that here in youtube

[@artofjhill]

I’ll make a video like this for UE soon. Different method. You’d export it as an .abc cache. Not geo

[@johnbenjamingalzote2846]

@@artofjhill owww niceee we will waitt for it thanks jay 😌🙏

[@aroonsikandar6949]

Can you make a tutorial on how to export hair particle system from blender to marmoset. Or can you please explain the workflow it would be wonderful n great help thanks. Love your vids man

[@artofjhill]

Hey thanks. I don't ever use Blender for hair so couldn't do that

[@scotthammond6589]

but... she balled... in her part!!!

[@artofjhill]

True

[@Giga3D811]

bro i love you for this shader setup, especiallythe face camera setting. im gonna try this and tag ya on insta haha😍

[@artofjhill]

Would love to see it

[@sadrashariaty9426]

Thank you a lot.

[@artofjhill]

you're welcome

[@S9universe]

hello i'm hesitating between, substance painter, quixel mixer and marmoset toolbag 4 for texture painting, i hope you could help me decide with your experience :)

[@artofjhill]

Substance Painter is by far the most widely used for texturing characters for real time rendering. I would always choose that for that purpose

[@S9universe]

@@artofjhill thank you man

[@lolosoaauron857]

Hi J , i just wanted to say that i like ur videos and wanna ask question is there any way to import hair that we made in blender ?

[@lolosoaauron857]

nah fk it ill start to learn maya .

[@artofjhill]

Hey! Glad you like the videos. I’m not sure if the process but if you can export it as geometry then sure. Though blender renders hair well so I’d probably just stay there and not try and move everything to Marmoset

[@lolosoaauron857]

@@artofjhill yup i figure it out but the process is too complex and geometry nodes are also too complex everything is so good in bledner but hair. so ill learn maya like y'all who make nice hair . for 3 months of blender is enough to understand 3d for me .

[@MrAnishraaj]

Is there a way to make the hair dye gradient in marmoset like you did in arnold?

[@artofjhill]

I didn’t figure it out but I didn’t try very color. That might do it. Adding vert color to a mesh that dense could be slow though. But you can mix vert color with color in Toolbag I think

[@nicholuassommer2084]

J, quick q, animated xgen hair to poly, anything extra needed in order for the poly to be animated? Trying to save myself from another 8 hour experimentation session.

[@nicholuassommer2084]

Simulated*

[@nicholuassommer2084]

answered my own question via help menu. Thanks for the tut!

[@artofjhill]

Glad you got it sorted

[@TimV777]

Could you do a tut with fibermesh hair too?

[@newnengates3764]

J hill. On your patreon do you 3D model viewers fan art (like drawings in general)?!

[@artofjhill]

Nah I haven't done anything like that. It's mostly full length stuff. extra info. some exclusive tutorials. downloads. etc

[@reetu977]

hello. how would you fix the faces pointing the wrong way in maya? and /or in blender?

[@artofjhill]

Flip or reverse. I think it’s called reverse in maya

[@enricbagur8105]

Sheeeesh!

[@TechnicalJatin1]

Can I Export Textures of Hair Material Made in Marmasot

[@artofjhill]

Not sure what you mean. I haven’t tried authoring textures in marmoset

[@berlinpadua411]

hi J , whats the setting of turntable?? so it will not revolve 360, thanks

[@artofjhill]

Hey. This was done in marmoset so you’d set it to whatever you want. I probably do a 180 so -90 to +90 degrees

[@berlinpadua411]

@@artofjhill thanks sooo much idol :D

[@IGarrettI]

Are there advantages of rendering in marmoset over Ue? or vice versa?

[@artofjhill]

yea, Marmoset is simpler and easier to set a scene up to get good quality renders. UE is more powerful, can do more, but takes longer to set up and is more complicated to use

[@abinashbarik1832]

Is it possible to use uv map color to xgen and then render it in marmoset???

[@artofjhill]

there is probably a way to have a texture map for the hairs, not sure though. Vert color may be the best way for use in Marmoset

[@RenanMenendes]

Oh man I love u!!!! hhaahaha

[@hamatoshamatos7048]

i never know that marmoset can render this fast

[@artofjhill]

Marmoset is all about dat speed

[@NinusMaximus]

I created my grooms with interactive groom editor and when i select the descriptions to convert i get this message: Warning: XGen: No XGen description selected or found Any help would be immensely appreciated guys!

[@artofjhill]

Convert to what? You don’t have to convert to interactive because it already is. Export the alembic cache

[@NinusMaximus]

@@artofjhill i wanted to convert to polygons. but somehow it worked now. I've spent days trying. thanks man, your videos are awesome! I'd love to have a video one day about your stories in the industry. Titanfall 2 is still one of my all time favs!

[@pro100voron_CG]

Cool

[@DeliriousBlake]

I love u 💖

[@DeliriousBlake]

I just want to say it

[@sssw3932]

how to get a clean render of hair in MAYA?

[@artofjhill]

Video coming up

[@ishelika]

Do you sell your hairstyles?

[@artofjhill]

Nope. Might add this one to Patreon

[@im_crisl50]

Thanks for that! Amazing

[@endizero]

can u make it 2color from root and half

[@artofjhill]

For that I'd probably try using vert color. Might be a real pain to do vert coloring on that dense of a mesh though

[@endizero]

i hope to see u make that video . see alot in anime 2D .but 3D yap. it hurt the brain

[@rengg1441]

next: lighting for character

[@artofjhill]

May be next, may be after next. but for sure

[@dominikroth7823]

Wow

[@pepepalotes178]

could you try making hair in blender?

[@artofjhill]

I could. Could you try making hair in Maya?

[@tristanbreale9377]

Hello ! Could you activate the subtitle please ? (i'm deaf)

[@artofjhill]

Hello! Should be automatically made by tomorrow. If not, let me know. I can try a captioning service for this. I'd like all my videos captioned in the future. Thank you for your interest

[@vanityvoodoo969]

"Here we are in Maya." Time to watch a diff. video. Dude should know not everyone can spend thousands of dollars on a program. He should consider doing this using Blender and Marmoset.

[@artofjhill]

This is using marmoset. Maya indie is 250$ a year and blender can’t make hair as good. This is about making high quality hair not a blender tutorial.

[@vanityvoodoo969]

Wasn't implying on it supposed to be a blender tutorial. Yes, Im sure we all know that Maya does a much better job of hair, but also, not everyone is willing, or can pay for Maya, so they are stuck only using Blender. Basically most indie developers don't have the funds to give their artists licenses until they get funding from some source. Hence again, why the vast majority of indies use Blender.