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ToadieOdie was asking about how I made this hair. I think this pic should explain. I've got a few locks that are curve objects-- they're not really that detailed, you could get rid of most of the verts apparent on that wireframe view. I use a bevel object that was just a circle of verts I made and converted to a circle, and that's all that I really want, those 16 verts, times maybe that many edge loops, for each lock.

Most of the detail comes from the normal map, which I made by hand, which also isn't that complicated. I use vasilnatalie.deviantart.com/ar… to generate the normal maps. The mesh is pretty simple, and I do an array modifier with merge to make sure the normals are continuous at the seams.

That's the only texture in the node setup. The node setup combines 2 glossy shaders for stronger highlights with 2 anisotropic shaders using slightly different colors and slightly different rotations. In the pic, it's just been modified to make the emission for the normal map view-- you don't want to copy that node setup straight without looking at it.

When I write the curve objects to mesh objects-- done temporarily to create this picture-- I'll have to do some clean up on them to make them work well with the existing scalp and connect them properly to the hairline.

Description
ToadieOdie was asking about how I made this hair. I think this pic should explain. I've got a few locks that are curve objects-- they're not really that detailed, you could get rid of most of the verts apparent on that wireframe view. I use a bevel object that was just a circle of verts I made and converted to a circle, and that's all that I really want, those 16 verts, times maybe that many edge loops, for each lock.

Most of the detail comes from the normal map, which I made by hand, which also isn't that complicated. I use vasilnatalie.deviantart.com/ar… to generate the normal maps. The mesh is pretty simple, and I do an array modifier with merge to make sure the normals are continuous at the seams.

That's the only texture in the node setup. The node setup combines 2 glossy shaders for stronger highlights with 2 anisotropic shaders using slightly different colors and slightly different rotations. In the pic, it's just been modified to make the emission for the normal map view-- you don't want to copy that node setup straight without looking at it.

When I write the curve objects to mesh objects-- done temporarily to create this picture-- I'll have to do some clean up on them to make them work well with the existing scalp and connect them properly to the hairline.