Let's make real time hair-Sice's hair style from FF type zero ( Zbrush workflow)

Have you ever wanted to learn how to make real-time hair but thought to yourself, I can't do it because it must be difficult, then you are lucky my friend.
I am going to show you the breakdown of how I created Sice's hair style from Final fantasy type zero only using Zbrush. So go grab a cup of tea, and let's begin!
If you have any questions or constructive feedback, put them in the comment section. That would be really appreciated!
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[@CDDT]

Great video. i like this workflow. I dont use zbrush much anymore so i need to find a way to do this in blender. Excellent vid and very well done. Thank you.

[@JoHnWxNoW98]

I have to study a way to improve hair cards for the project I'm doing and I went in my study playlist and found this video, this workflow is so interesting, I want to try it. I'm watching all the videos and this channel is just gold in hair creation, I'm also seeing your improvment video by video. Thank you for learning this and sharing on youtube for everyone.

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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:)

[@majkelg2761]

Wow, very interesting workflow. I didn't even think it is possible to make good game ready hair in Zbrush. Appreciate and thanks for video

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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.

[@majkelg2761]

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

[@maheshchathuranga8414]

Amazing❤. Can you make braids hair card using blender

[@omarsherif5150]

Hi tom, whenever i try making the triangular shape into a curve brush the faces disappear for some reason even tho im using double sided in display properties, thanks for the awesome workflow

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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?

[@kien197]

Thanks for the video man. This workflow is quite insteresting, the biggest downside probably is that you gotta do the placing phase without the texture, I feel like for more complex hair styles that would be a very big problem

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

Hi Kien! Thank you for watching! And yes you are absolutely right. For this project I didn't face much of issue since I broke down the main hair structure into several smaller components and made structures one by one.( Create hair cards, send over to blender, apply texture, send it back to Zbrush to make adjustment....) but If I wanted to make much more specific and complex hair style, things will get harder for sure haha

[@gabocavallaro]

Hi @@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 thankd for your videos ! I really like them and you got a nice outcome!. You still can see textures in Zbrush if you want. And that way you dont need to go back and forth with another soft. For not losing your UVs when you apply an insert brush and see your textures you need to ensure to the mesh that are you using your insert mesh (in the case the head) already got UVs too. You can check this video that explains it better: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i56weKKgo72AmJo Hope it helps! And nice workflow btw!

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

@@gabocavallaro Aw thank you so much for kind word and really cool advice! I appreciate it! I have been developing new and way better zbrush hair card workflow recently and I hope to share it on this channel soon :)

[@gabocavallaro]

@@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358 niceeee so excited!! I do personally research a lot about workflows for effective card placement with good outcomes and I found your channel. Keep it up the great work !😊😊

[@srknAyn]

How difficult can it be to build such a geometry node in blender... Does anyone know such a free addon for blender? Or I'll start learning Gometry Node just for the hair card.

[@chiebodili8730]

Nice workflow man... what addon did youyuse to straighten the UVs/

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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

[@user-el2ey7yf1t]

hello Tom! Thank you very much for your video.. I've been searching for a way to make hair for a week now, and this approach is really nice. and i'm sorry for my dumb question, i must've missed something. I'm a newby, and i can't understand where you got the texture map in zbrush at 2:25.

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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. :(

[@user-el2ey7yf1t]

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

[@vineetkumar5081]

Hey there Tom there is method for hair chunk workflow using hair tools addon. Infact I've made a full 8 parts video series on that if you wish to check that out

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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

[@Lanthiren]

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

[@kevdiat]

I'm having vastly different results creating this brush. I don't see what I'm doing differently.

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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

[@Damian_h]

i wouldnt manually uv all haird cards 1 by 1 just unwrap with 45° degree angle and correct the ones that caught some kind of extra polygon due to angle limit. Z brush 2023 can uv by creased edge so u can crease by angle and UV then uncrease all once the uv are ready. Or a way more optimal can be create the IMM brush with the creased edge already settled then once u finish the hair click uv by creased edge.

[@Lanthiren]

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

[@Damian_h]

​@@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.

[@ramaaji381]

well its been a while for ff type zero title show up in my yt

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

Yeah, it's really old game haha

[@templesky8668]

Hi! can i get your brushes for zbrush please ? By the way, you have such a great voice! It's really nice to listen to the video.

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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!

[@templesky8668]

@@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 :)

[@duke110]

hi tom! for the brush you use to lay down your hair cards, does it have a backface? it looks like it does in the video, I'm trying to replicate the same workflow, great stuff by the way! :D

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

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 :)

[@duke110]

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

[@tomcreektomoyaogawa4358]

@@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.

[@duke110]

@@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! :)