Create Hair Cap in Maya and Marmoset 

I guess I'm kind of randomly asking but do anybody know a good place to watch new series online ?

@Messiah Kendrick try flixzone. You can find it on google =)

@Emmett Francis Yea, been watching on Flixzone for months myself =)

@Emmett Francis thank you, I signed up and it seems to work :) I really appreciate it !

@Messiah Kendrick Happy to help xD

thank you for sharing, Tim!

And just to add this well suggested point, once you've done that, assign a surface shader to the newly combined cap geo, via face selection in maya. It won't necessarily export the shader values from maya but it will give you a texture slot in marmoset where you can then black out the cap's albedo. That way, the albedo separates cleanly when baking rather than it resembling a mask of the cap geo itself.

This helps me a lot Thanks Tim and Realtimehair

but you cant get albedo since the head cap is on the high hair

Thanks PixelBlend! I will think about the tutorial.

There are multiple workflows, I'm planning to use this as my hair cap, sculpt the shape of hair in zbrush, make the hair card in maya for zbrush as an imm curve over the sculpt and hair texture either designer or photoshop

@@danlee7923 Good luck man! Do you get a control of the cards in Imm brush than in Maya or max?

@@pixbstudios there's a method in Maya, also works in max, is to make a 2x2 flat plane, and duplicate a couple of times and mould a root with a 4x4 of double the size. Each plane is separate for the custom curve brush, so you can have a never ending hair card brush. If you have a hair sculpt, you can follow the hair flow of the sculpt and use them as a guide. You can use this brush as a hair cap, but imo this hair cap looks better. When your done with the card, weld them and autogroup them. There's multiple videos on this but the one I remembered was Monkey Studios I believe that's done this method.

@@pixbstudios RU-vid channel, MonkeySuite

Thanks, Diogo! Actually, you can use xGen description as well and later convert convert it into the Interactive Groom for baking setup. I would use xGen description in cases when I need to create more complex hairstyles. But for the "baking setup" - making the hair face outside the mesh and converting hair into geometry with specific UV placement - this is where you'd need it to be an Interactive Groom.

thank you Anton!

ID Map is used to create the color variation. It's been used as mask, influencing color/diffuse map and creates different shades of the separate hairs. It makes sense when your color/diffuse map is a flat color or just a color value plugged in shader

Hi Igor, do you mean for the final render? or for baking the cap? For the final hair rendering in Marmoset, I don't think you need them. These maps are used for the Unreal Engine Hair shader. And for baking the cap - I plug them into diffuse/color, thank the idea. Hope I understood the question correctly.

Also do you know how can I create a flow map?

oh, you will not be exporting them for maya - in maya you only create the geo and it's 3x3 UV maps - it is a high poly of hair, this information you will bake into character's scalp. The ID and Root map - you bake them in Marmoset from this information (this color maps 3x3 you created for high poly hair)

yeah, this video doesn't show you how to create the flow map. It's a bit trickier. Maybe I will later release a video abt that

@@realtimehair thank you :)

Hi Lucia, yes, the Flow map (or Directional map) is a tricky one. So there are a few options: if you already have created your other hair cap textures - then I believe the best option is to draw a directional (flow) map using Substance painter. Here's a link of how to do it: substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/spdoc/flow-map-painting-143327274.html But if you will be making the hair cap maps from scratch I would suggest a few tools, which bake the directional map along with all other maps: - Hair tool for blender bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/hairtool joseconseco.github.io/HairToolDocs_28/texture_baking/ - Hair TG Surface www.artstation.com/a/14483113 You can also find more info on creating hair caps on my website realtimehair.com/how-to-create-hair-caps-a-few-different-workflows/ I hope that helps!

for Rendering in Marmoset please refer to their hair material setup, as usually I render in UnrealEngine. The final render you can see in the video are from UnrealEngine. marmoset.co/posts/how-to-create-realistic-hair-peach-fuzz-and-eyes/

did you find any fix?

I think you need to check the Baking settings. Maybe it's something OpenGL/DirectX or inverting the G/Y channel

hi far! the logic is the same, yes. Check out my article about the diffrent ways of creating the hair texture realtimehair.com/8-techniques-to-create-textures-for-real-time-hair/

Hi Soviet Stache, in most cases I place cards manually, but it depends on the hairstyle. For a female bob style I would use the plugin or xgen splines to plcae the cards, for male short hair - usually place by hand. Please check my plog post on the techniques of hair cards placement here realtimehair.com/13-workflows-to-place-the-hair-cards-for-real-time-hair/

and also I have a breakdown of how I did male short hairstyle here www.artstation.com/artwork/kD82Oy

Hi Vasantha, please check my blog post here realtimehair.com/13-workflows-to-place-the-hair-cards-for-real-time-hair/ and maybe I would create a tutorial later

hi Emu, thanks for the subscription! I don't actually post my hair works on instagram, but you can check my artstation profile - I sometimes post there the breakdowns and more of my works : www.artstation.com/marizatorska and more articles on my blog realtimehair.com/

I'll think about that, thanks for the idea