Creating hair for Character Creator in Blender with Hair Tool addon

[@Kuziminski]

God I love how I learned more about the hair shader from this workflow tutorial than I did the official tutorial. Hell yeah. Thank you for making this addon.

[@TheFuzzypuddle]

This is by far the most detailed and clearly explained blender to cc tutorial I've seen. Thank you so much.

[@thercf16guy35]

Extremely effective!. I love how you can just model your own custom shape without having to work off only presets, but I also love that you gave us presets as well! Incredible work man!

[@vididoll]

After I'm watching several times and more familiar with blender yet, I'm in Love with this tool now.

[@NexVice]

Amazing work! I'm want to get at your workflow speed one day! Thanks for sharing, I learned a lot in this video. Cheers!

[@eknight2904]

Very nice, just saw this on the reallusion page and in my YT notifications - super nice!

[@hosq4296]

i was wating this tutorial for a year, ty very much dude!

[@samsonheisey3115]

Really Great job :) I was a little confused before about where exactly some pieces that make a hair look like hair go, like what exactly goes in the Blend box and so on. This helps clear some of that up and now I won't be more reliant on just dropping stuff in random boxes until the hair looks like it should. Some of them are definitely self-explanatory but some others are not. Its a very great hair tool too. Thanks for helping with the cross program information.

[@nebula480]

Been waiting for this one for a while. Thank you!

[@Hero_Studio]

Thank you very very very much!!! I was waiting for this tutorial for a long time! The new Smart Hair Shader it's awesome on reallusion but with this it's infinite.👌🖖👌

[@butterpup1471]

i really love your plugin! i'm really grateful!!

[@ChinoSisouphanh]

the easiest and cool hair plugin for Blender, I use it for CC3 too :) amazing job => huge quality and time saver addon ! thx

[@bit-studios1]

Wow!!! This is outstanding!!! Thank you for the tutorial.

[@3DGraphicsFun]

Gosh this is so very helpful. Easy to understand and much needed tutorial. Big Thanks :)

[@franksmith2301]

Thanks for the tutorial, the fake shadow works wonders for my model!!!! :)

[@Alexander_S_K]

Amazing breakdown. Thank you for this video!

[@mastjappa]

Haha, you are quick mate! Great stuff.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Wow that free addon to move mesh looks nice. Felt a bit like the pose mode in sculpt mode

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Ow MiraTools, dang havent used that in years. Always such a wonderfull addon

[@LordCritish]

Would be great to see an updated tutorial with the whole workflow HT 3.5 --> CC4. I'm totally new to HT and it's kind of overwhelming to get this working together.

[@kaikun2236]

wow you showed so many features of hair tool I never knew about! Thank you!

[@bladedomega9702]

weird when I try to do the Opacity map for the strands, it's like blender ignores it and I get a brown blocky plane texture for the hair cardss.

[@josh.0]

very good tool and thank you for the tutorials. worth the money

[@crusty21]

01:40 - Would you know what may cause Blender to crash every time when trying to bake the maps out to their respective files..?

[@VIRGILIANSHAILER]

Best Game Ready Hair card plugin on market. It would be great if there is some button to resolve collision and intersections of haircards and target mesh.

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Yest it would be cool, but i would be hard to do with decent performace in python. Intersecting geo would probably explode on cloth sim

[@VIRGILIANSHAILER]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 thanks for answer. i mean - not real time. It's just one time operation. Something like "push away from surface" in Ornatrix for Maya. Maya and Ornatrix also wrote on Python.

[@제이스톤AI]

Excellent Hair.

[@aaronanoos5650]

thank you for the tutorial man.. this is amazing.. make more about hair to cc.. :)

[@xr-labs2310]

Hey does this work well with CC 4. and Blender 4.0?

[@jacob4316]

AWESOME! Thank You.

[@carlosedubarreto]

Great tutorial thanks.

[@EmvyBeats]

What is the point of coloring the hair in CC if you can't bake a diffuse map for it? Mine just comes out white even with the bake diffuse box checked on export. I'm most likely just slow.

[@tiffanywellis3099]

Hey, does anyone know how to keep the hair like this when Importing into UE4? When I try to import her into UE4, the ombre disappears and her hair turns solid white and I have to manually fix everything.. but even then, I can't get the ombre back, inside of UE4 either. please help! :(

[@EmvyBeats]

Same issue. Would be nice to know.

[@phil4459]

I do have the same problem :/

[@ivanm.612]

you have to create a new material in ue4 and do a mask with the alpha channel of the image. In UE4 you can choose different shader models. There is one called hair. Search for the node hair color into the dye color you can select the color value, melanin is for darkness redness for red. Search in KZbin for more detail infos.

[@Fancy.languages1]

what an incredible tutorial!

[@carlhdz8201]

Where´s material libraly located? 2:06

[@retas956]

Thank you for helpful video! but I have a question. How do I get an AO map and others? In the video, the textures are output at some point, but I don't see such a step!

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

at the begining - when I show how to bake textures - there is list of all availible passes that you can bake. AO is among them :D

[@retas956]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 oh, I'm sorry! I had really overlooked this! Thank you so much! and Thanks again for all the great add-ons!

[@guimero_art]

Incredible!!

[@Stubbs2501]

this is great, thanks :)

[@slowvibes9595]

How do you got the opacity scalp mask? I did the same masking, but it doesn't look like your texture.

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

I have shown opacity scalp mask setup at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6nMo2apoNN4o9U

[@slowvibes9595]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 That's okay, i ask about the texture. The one you put in CC looks different than in blenders, if you know what I mean. Also, is there a way to use these textures in UE4? All these settings, maps. Thanks so much for your answer!

[@maro8822]

@@slowvibes9595 you are right. The textures look different. Bartosz didn't show UV unwrap step before texture paint. Just select the scalp mesh, go to edit mode, select all vertices, hit "U" click uv unwrap and then you can start painting the texture. Cheers

[@hmoobnplog]

why when design completely i try to export to cc.34 the hair is missing how to do?

[@natreextv8516]

Great tutorial! Love this plugin. I have a question... do you have any idea how to use the FiberShop export instead? I mean, I try to use it into the UV editor with the opacity given from fibershop... but because it use a mask instead of a alpha channel png... it unusable into your hairtool.

[@eligijuspranskunas3509]

Hi, on 2:58 i can't regenerate hairs, error pops up saying: Attribute error:'Object' object has no attribute 'cycles_visibility' please help!

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

I have just sent email notification with update what will fix this issue - Hair Tool ver 2.35 will fix this problem. Thanks

[@theonethatlookslikethisone1280]

I don't have hair presets in the library is that only for the studio license?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

No, they are available to all customers. You should see it on your gumroad account - in your purchases -> Hair tool - it shoud show you multiple files - one of them will be hair_libary.zip

[@EmvyBeats]

After coloring the hair in CC how do you export the model with the hair color you changed? I can't seem to get it to export any color other than the original diffuse map. (White)

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

in games often u do not want to export color texture, but only export color b&w mask (root map) so that u can customize their color ingame. If you really want to export color, then there is diffuse pass in HT baking scene.

[@코노양민]

I can't find the Linear Deformer in the hair tool. It is not possible to modify the curve tool even after installing the mirror tool. I can only use Linear Deformer in object mode - hair modeling. I wish it was added to the icon of the hair tool. You can freely use Linear Deformer even in edit mode. How to set shortcut keys in edit mode and curve tool mode?

[@epolusyenn]

question, are cc3 possible to use hair strands other than hair card like you did in this video?

[@jnanashakthidigitals]

Imported hair ready includes simulation details?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

AFAIR CC does all the sim, u just have to black and white vert group, to mask the simulation.

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

Bartosz...or anyone who can help. Why can't I see the Generate Ribbons button in the main panel in the lower left corner? I'm using 2.93LTS

[@afterworldstudios6539]

Would be better to tile the hair texture to fill the gap rather than copying the head to create a shadow?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

I guess it was showing textures since they were linked anyways? I thought it would export without them or does embed, embed them inside the FBX? didnt know that was possible

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

I think its bug in CC fbx exporter. In theory I disabled texture export, but they were imported anyway...

[@Darth_Bateman]

Hey man, how do I send the hair over to Daz and still keep the materials?

[@mlc2239]

It's nice but do you have any solution to resolve render fight in fade mode in unity

[@webtvhostitatibaweb]

Good night excellent video..but you wouldn't have a video on how to install the Hair Tool addon on Blender 2.9.2 which is the latest version and how to use it on this version ... Here is my video suggestion and thanks in advance

[@frankmichael1317]

Why do you replace the default texture - is it just a matter of personal taste?

[@MikeDKelley]

I've always loved your plugin, Bartosz (and YEARS ago, when you had version 1.0, I kept suggesting you focus on iClone/Character Creator :>) but, honestly, your explanation about the hair shader is better than even RL's videos. I still wish you had more male hairstyle presets but you're doing great, great work (and I recommend everyone buy your plugin all the time -- so I at least get you *some* sales ).

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Thanks Mike. It has been long time since release of version 1.0. Thanks for your support !

[@OkaToka]

I don't see "flow" and "directional map" in my hair tool by a some reason. Also Traceback error after I hit "Bake". "Invalid literal for init() with base 10"

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Make sure you have latest HTool version (at least ver. 2.26)

[@nkungtran7121]

HI, please help me, I using Garment but I have some isuue with this, like I want to knot tie on my modeling but this geometry go through and not effect at all with my modeling, how can I fix this please?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Hi. you question is related to blender cloth sim (GTool itself does not affect cloth simulation - but it generates meshes for cloth sime). It sound like you have problem with collisions - enable them in cloth settings - see docs: docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/physics/cloth/settings/collisions.html

[@Fancy.languages1]

how to tranfer skin weight in cc3.4?

[@bigmagictent]

I'm so frustrated with your documentation and tutorials. This has so many features, but learning how to get useful results into CC3 is very challenging.

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Making good looking hair is IMO, hardest part of character creation. It may take some time before you will get good looking results. About exporting results into CC - its no different from exporting any other mesh from blender to CC. I would recommend joining HTool discord support channel: discord.com/invite/cxZDbqH

[@bigmagictent]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 Straight hair with your addon is easy and produces great models. Learning how to do curls has been a bit challenging. I think I understand now, after some trial and error, but I had trouble learning the process from the documentation and video. The addon itself is robust, impressive and very well made. Thank you for all of your hard work.

[@naoremedisonsingh6035]

when i do Ctrl + shift + H I cant find bake Ambient occlusion please help!!!

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

you need to convert hair to mesh first using joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/convert_generate_hair.html#curve-ribbons-to-mesh-ribbons. Then AO bake option will be visible in the pie menu

[@naoremedisonsingh6035]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 got it thnx

[@FX_AnimationStudios]

Hi Bartosz... hair tool for 2.93 (2.3 version) is not rendering.. blender gets stuck..any idea why? hairtool 2.27 in 2.92 renders with no issues on same computer.

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

I just tested ht 2.3 + blender 2.93 and I cant reproducte this error. Do you have any error in console? Maybe try deleting most of the hair objects, leave only one and see if that works.

[@FX_AnimationStudios]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 I really dont get it.. sometimes I open blender and the bake file and it renders fine...seems like a random issue... I only have one hair object... at some point blender gets unstuck but after around 5minutes... I have biffy machine 3090, 128gb, i9. is there a proper channel to use for support?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

@@FX_AnimationStudios discord.gg/cxZDbqH addon support channel - in any case I recommed updating to blender 2.93 and HTool 2.3

[@FX_AnimationStudios]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 thanks for the channel.. i am using 2.93 and 2.3..

[@nemesilickitunghiana5618]

my library is empty ,anyone have this issue?

[@trunganh9319]

I can't see the finalize hair option, any ideas what might be wrong

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Did you selet hair objects first? You can select multiple curve and mesh hair objects -then option should popup in HT pie menu

[@trunganh9319]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 I was on an older version, got 2.30 problem solved

[@AVDVDFOTOSEFILMAGENS]

Hello Bartosz Styperek, once again good night where I import these presets in the Hayr Tools Addons tool because I installed it in Blender 2.9 but nothing appears in the library I am waiting and I thank you in advance ... it would be interesting to see a video step by step of how to install and configure the Hair Tool Addon which is very good by the way but i need to learn how to add these presets and library i'm waiting for the videos teaching this or how i could do them

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

The library is just folder with bunch blend files in it. You can download zipped example hair library from gumroad. See docs: joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/hair_library/

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Those passes can also be used in Blener right, i mean there not specific to Charactor Creator right?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

yep, they are more or less industry standard passes which should work in all game engines including eevee

[@marcelaebratt54]

Hello. Thank you very much for you videos .Beatifull work ! I have a question : I do not understand why I dont kan use the menu in object mode in Blender. Only in edit mode, but Blender closes as soon I use the menu. Is it maybe an error in my installation?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

What kind of error do you get? Do you have blender 2.93 installed? You may use - discord.gg/cxZDbqH -addon discord support channel

[@marcelaebratt54]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 Thanks for your answer. I have 2.93. There is not an error message. Blender closes if I use the menu in edit mode. There is not possible to use it in object mode.

[@marcelaebratt54]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 Thanks

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

@@marcelaebratt54 The only thing I can think of - is to load Default settings and see if then HT works. Or reinstall blender/ HTool. I did not get bug report from anybody else, like this, so it must be something with your config, I think.

[@darkomen96]

How to apply my own hair maps to the mesh?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

I showed custom hair texture setup at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6nMo2apoNN4o9U . If you want to use other textures - you would have to replace the HairShader node group with Principled node and plug in imported custom maps to this principled shader.

[@isleklukas7805]

Just wanted to ask how you would make a weight map for the hair for iclone?

[@vididoll]

Use a 3D painting Program. Black is no physic and white is physic. Make a smooth transition from black to white Store this grayscale map and use it in the physics tab in iClone

[@isleklukas7805]

@@vididoll yeah i found an efficient way by using a custom root map of my hair strands as weight map. If the strands need to have different grayscale ramps, i just add the parts of the pictures to another in GIMP

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

I think you can use : joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/mesh_ribbons_ops/#sample-weights-from-target to transfer weights from character to hair. Or for simple weight gradient u can use: joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/mesh_ribbons_ops/#add-weights

[@leaphymoon9881]

I assume you'd be able to export the new hair textures from Character Creator back into blender, right?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

AFAIK there is now exporter from CC to blender, and it automatically handles the textures export/import. Should be easy to google.

[@alekjwrgnwekfgn]

Cool, finally I bought Hair Toll addon. Does anyone have a link to how to animate the hair in iClone or Unreal/Unity?

[@DaniMarti_]

Hi! if you want to animate hair you should add bones and animate them... an easier solution is using Magica Cloth that works for hair, cloths, tails, etc assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/magica-cloth-160144 hope it helps :-)

[@alessela7119]

Impressive tool! Can you export hair created with Hair Tool as individual curves?

[@akazadigital8079]

Hello! I've already tried exporting hair from blender to Iclone , and being honest I'm not succeeding. I have seen that this plugin works , have you tried exporting without this plugin ? It worked

[@SuperSebatube]

awesome!

[@redfishstudio2507]

i just bought this. how do you install the library?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

check out docs about hair library: joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/hair_library.html . There is lots of other information too.

[@Redfishpersonal]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 thanks.

[@colbydiamond]

4:11 "nonetype object has no attribute keys"

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

please post more info on - discord.gg/cxZDbqH . This video is old, and new hair tool works only with new 'hair curves'.

[@vladimirvladimirovich-l1y]

Does it support physics?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Hair tool has its own JIggle bones physics - joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/hair_animation/ . Character creator has its own cloth physics (you need to create guide texture for where cloth is applied). I do not use CC much now, so I woud go to their docs for more info

[@TokinJesus]

anyone else not getting the desired effect in CC4 using the exact steps they used to create the finished look

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

Its hard to tell what is wrong. But I would try posting on HTool discord channel, discord.gg/cxZDbqH . There is CC section

[@nellofontani]

thanks

[@mijabunny]

how to flip normals when making curls :C

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

you cant flip normals on curves. You have to convert them to mesh first.

[@mijabunny]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 yes i’m aware of that, but after converting to mesh, the normals are flipped different ways since the mesh is a curl that is rotated in a spiral. would i have to manually select each face and flip it? bcus when exporting to games the normals that are on the wrong side are invisible ingame. or i guess what i’m asking is how would i export curls ingame

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

@@mijabunny You just have to enable double sided material in your game engine. This is how unity and unreal engine should render hair meshes. I'm not sure where the setting in the material is but there should be checkbox in main hair shader parameters

[@kids24359]

that tool dosn work for me

[@bastian3938]

Pro: easy, fast, clear UI Cons: no support for Blender 3.0, cant rotate the "define UV Regions" only from top to bottom

[@estilizatec3654]

Excelente, podrías ponerlo en español? gracias.

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

no comprende.. I'm from poland :)

[@tigerplay930]

Классно)

[@CheyenneRobinson15]

Are you able to make African American hair styles?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

In the latest update I added UV Curls which should help: joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/uv_material.html#hair-uv-curls . Im not sure about other hairstyles. Do you have reference?

[@CheyenneRobinson15]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 Hello Bartosz. Thanks for replying. Here is a video that has the hair styles i refer to. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn2rdHShgpeNl6c

[@robertomejias5479]

Suggested playback speed: 0.75

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

its interesting that you say that - I bumped up the playback speed 25% after recording original video, since I thought it was to slow :)

[@RomboutVersluijs]

ehm would grey hair look more gray at roots actually, thats "new" hair ;)

[@HalkerVeil]

Reallusion "Oh you think hair is part of making a character? It's not. That will be $300 for this info."

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

What do you mean? This video is free, and plugin is something around 50$ (not 300)

[@3dsmax_metronomus480]

@@bartoszstyperek6306 I think you misunderstood Clap. He is making fun of Reallusions price policy, because you have to spend a lot of money for addons which should be part of the main product ;-)

[@rosuckmedia]

Hello, could you create an actual video, Character Creator 3 Blender Hair Tool, where you can also follow, I am not a Blender specialist, I have only basic knowledge. Greetings rosuckmedia

[@lolabellesims4256]

The accent makes the video a little hard to understand. Is there no close captioning? This one doesn't have close captioning.

[@dawidokrzesik512]

Fajny tutek ale musisz poćwiczyć akcent odrobinę, bo nie da się takiego dłużej słuchać.

[@jeffreyspinner9720]

Except for the 2.79 ptsd you've triggered with the retina burning GUI, tyvm! Right click is NOT left click. X doesn't delete in *any other program but Blender!* You don't know how many times I've tapped x to delete, and went, whoops, not Ton land... come back to reality, come back...

[@IGarrettI]

Your accent is atrocious, but you're an addon genius nonetheless!

[@PinoyBlender]

you sound like you're in a hurry