CGMA | Creating Hair for Games with Johan Lithvall

[@Cloudy0w0]

"takes me 2 weeks for this one" well fuck, I thought I could do this shit in a day xD

[@yangyiliu1860]

great lesson I learned a lot. BTW, at 25:20 that ghosty artifact that Maya viewport renders can be solved by turning up the near-clip in your Camera settings.

[@syllync.e]

at 46:00 it's the information I've been looking for. Thanks a lot for sharing those great experiences!

[@ashleechan22]

This is amazing! Creating polyhair because xgen is just too crazy for me to use at this time. I have more fun doing this. It looks just as good. Id like to know how you get the lighting and bump mapping done for it. The way the light passes through is incredible! Im creating hair cards from xgen generated planes.

[@Sir_Loin_]

What’s xgen

[@wikia9278]

@@Sir_Loin_ a feature for creating hair in maya

[@YellowDogltd]

Just found this after it was recommended to us. Really insightful!

[@junwoosong3710]

1:13:40 baking, spline -> geometry

[@CrusaderGabriel]

Why didn’t I gave this one a watch a couple months ago… been procrastinating extremely hard a (personal project) character hair to the point i resculpted thrice (to add better anatomy details), retopologized twice and even remade clothes to adjust with the new shape, all because I feel working on hair is extremely hard and annoying and somehow my brain doesn’t want to do it… Not saying this makes it easier, but saying it makes sense now and should really give it a serious try now, after getting all these pointers

[@ConstantineTvalashvili]

Super useful materials! thanks for sharing!

[@morin6661]

Thank you so much for sharing this with us :D

[@jalvarez6842]

Is it okay if I convert the xgen hair I generated to geometry in preview output? And bake it

[@anvekarakash]

great video

[@jannisk.5402]

Really amazing insights! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@annecalamuccimucciart1579]

Thanks for this video! Its really helpfull

[@yarosyari3516]

Can I see download link for unreal material shader of that hair?

[@fluidfox1436]

Lots of useful tips here

[@xnet-pvzok728]

54:00 how long does it take to create hair

[@Shige2213]

is this course still relevant? , quite old now

[@Polytricity]

I made a tool called Hair Strand Designer to skip a lot of this kind of workflow, check it out on Artstartion. www.artstation.com/robertramsay/store/j7PY/hair-strand-designer-v1-287

[@IINesasta]

So what is the ring shaped hair for?

[@iDrawWithPencils]

33:10

[@crimsonBen]

i was wondering what material he uses as a base for the hair in unreal?!

[@Aussie.Owlcoholic]

He answers that in the video, he uses the built in hair shader replicating what is used in the digital human showcases but simplified

[@yarosyari3516]

@@Aussie.Owlcoholic Can I see download link for that shader of this hair?

[@Aussie.Owlcoholic]

@@yarosyari3516 You can download the digital human showcase if it's still available, and just check how they did it. I'm not sure how different it is to metahuman's latest shaders. But either way, you have options.

[@benhardwiesner6963]

I cant tell if thats Frøya or Lagertha in those references

[@sanjayk2444]

lagertha

[@keithparker5625]

He says that Unreal doesn't use normal maps...But I know that Unreal engine does use normal maps...How old is this interview?

[@coreykinard1783]

Unreal 4 does in fact support normal maps, however the hair shader that Epic includes does not.

[@keithparker5625]

@@Sundermind so in other words certainly not before unreal used normal maps.

[@keithparker5625]

Perhaps the comment was meant to say that they didn't use normal maps for hair specifically?

[@1GamersRewind]

@@keithparker5625 I mean it's not really hard to infer that. The video is specifically about making hair.

[@petertremblay3725]

I work in the capital of video games and not a single studio i know can afford to put that much time in hair work.

[@Kinkoyaburi]

What would be considered capital of video games? L.A.?

[@petertremblay3725]

@@Kinkoyaburi It always has been Montreal!

[@ProjectShinkai]

i think it depends on the game. the main character of a new triple a franchise would be ok. they used that for lots of promotions and to sell the game.

[@1GamersRewind]

I think this explains why hair usually sucks ass so hard in video games.

[@umpaumpaify]

I thinks Houdini,especially with 17 version will be more prefer for that.)

[@TheIcemanModdeler]

Only if it automates the process more, putting each card individually and using deformers is super tedious.

[@umpaumpaify]

​@@TheIcemanModdeler,it was more easier and automatically even in early Houdini versions. For example: vimeo.com/209021576 vimeo.com/219374803 With 17 version there is special tool for it.And no need in custom setup and asset,so now it is more pretty easy.

[@TheIcemanModdeler]

@@umpaumpaify Thanks for sharing, will check those links out, also looked around and found the placer node for Maya Mash that has a lot of flexibility. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5OVi3qXZa91pNU

[@umpaumpaify]

​@@TheIcemanModdeler i left Maya 5 years ago,used it for about 10 years. When even with soup-dev www.soup-dev.com/ it stopped satisfy me and i saw that it is not so powerful software for my tasks. Now i deeply know that Houdini is the king of the hill. Mash is a toy for kids,what are u talking about. p.s sorry for my english

[@umpaumpaify]

@@TheIcemanModdeler Now Maya has turned into a monster, bought some tech there and something there. All parts of which do not work well with each other.

[@alexruas6235]

Uber cool

[@PenalverXD]

PC PRO here