Creating mesh hair for SL

[Vivi Kayor 1]

Hello, I wish to ask if there are any open text or video tutorials about hair creation. Mostly I'm interested in the UV mapping details, how to unwrap the geometry to make it fit the most hair textures in SL and so, make it easier to retexture. Thanks!

[Lindal Kidd 12,408]

Try this.

 

[Rolig Loon 22,603]

You'll find ideas here and there in the Mesh subforum and the Building & Texturing subforum of the Creation forum.  Search their archives.

[Vivi Kayor 1]

Thank you. Yet, understand that these subforums have hundreds of pages and most of topics have noting in common with my question, not even close. I meet a number ofdifficulties checking through them all, considering English is not even my first langage. So, I started this topic in case someone can advice something particular. Cheers

Edited November 11 by Vivi Kayor

[Pamela Galli 4,304]

22 minutes ago, Vivi Kayor said:

Thank you. Yet, understand that these subforums have hundreds of pages and most of topics have noting in common with my question, not even close. I meet a number ofdifficulties checking through them all, considering English is not even my first langage. So, I started this topic in case someone can advice something particular. Cheers

So you are wanting someone to post a tutorial in this thread? 

[Pamela Galli 4,304]

10 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Try this.

 

The question is: How did she find this so fast???

[Rolig Loon 22,603]

9 minutes ago, Pamela Galli said:

The question is: How did she find this so fast???

1. Lindal is one smart cookie and

2. Google is her friend.

[Pamela Galli 4,304]

20 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

1. Lindal is one smart cookie and

2. Google is her friend.

Or could it be she was just BRIBED WITH CHOCOLATE?

As usual.

[Lindal Kidd 12,408]

Maybe all three!

In truth, it was a quick Google search on "creating mesh hair for Second Life".

[Pamela Galli 4,304]

7 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Maybe all three!

In truth, it was a quick Google search on "creating mesh hair for Second Life".

Brilliant!

Why didn’t I think of that?

[Vivi Kayor 1]

Thank you, much appreciated!

[Lucia Nightfire 1,008]

One thing you never see with hair is cleanup of hidden faces which can remove 40 - 70% of triangles with the hair strand making method shown in the video which lead to a 246 Ktri hairset.

I have yet to see any hairset in SL with cleaned up triangles on the insides.

[OptimoMaximo 1,148]

5 hours ago, Lucia Nightfire said:

One thing you never see with hair is cleanup of hidden faces which can remove 40 - 70% of triangles with the hair strand making method shown in the video which lead to a 246 Ktri hairset.

I have yet to see any hairset in SL with cleaned up triangles on the insides.

WHA? That way you don't have the hair double sided, and nobody wants game grade optimized content :sarcasm: