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GLBHands-On Hair Solutions?
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I'm eventually going to need to find a hair solution to create hair.
The good news is there appears to be a good number of blender-based options out there. The bad news is that a lot of the videos I see demonstrating them, still require you to be wizzing around the interface like a tit in a trance!
You would think that since these developers create such amazing plugins, that they would bring all of the required parameters and settings into a single plugin interface, but it appears they don't do that. So to be more precise, which of the hair solutions out there is best designed for keeping everything within a single plugin window so that there's no need to be wizzing around the interface wondering where the settings are all the time?
I've looked at Daz's own hair solution, and while I don't mind it in general, I not happy with Daz Studio doing an unannounced disappearing act whenever I use it. I'm not a fan of strand based hair anyway and would much prefer to use either a physical geometric fiber or a hair-card type.
There was one I bought a few years ago, can't even remember the name of it now. But I couldn't get my head around it and in the end I requested a refund on it. Not the fault of the plugin, but I'm mildly schizophrenic and sometimes it functions in lockstep with OCD and I just CANNOT get my head around certain workflows even if to some they are crazy obvious and easy. I think with the plugin I had, the problem had a lot to do with Blender's interface design, so this is why I ideally need a plugin where as much as possible is contained within the plugin's window.
I should be able to select the head, click on a hair plugin button and start growing and styling hairs without needing to wizz around the interface setting stuff up, switching this and that or whatever else the plugin really should have taken care of for me - I mean surely that's the whole point.
Any recommendations based on these requirements would be very much appreciated!
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Easiest way, in my opinion. And they can easily be turned into hair "cards" by zeroing the Z axis.
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Cheers Pinspotter, and you know what, I totally agree. I do think the method shown in the video would work for me. I did think about doing something like that a few years back and even ended-up tracking down a utility designed to create the strand alphas to use with it. I'll have to track it down again, can't remember what it was called. And that plugin you linked to, I'm pretty sure that's the one I tired and there was just something about the way it worked (at least back then) that I just couldn't get my head around. Great plugin, but I coudn't get used to the way it worked.
And there's another one called Hair Brush which produces the best hair card designs I've seen, but the workflow when watching the videos about it looks like a nightmare to me since they're juping around all over the interface a lot of the time. I wish they would put dedicated automated buttons for those tasks in the plugin window so that it's all to hand. It'd make learning the and using it a heck of a ot easier if they did and I've never really understood why they don't.
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