Hair textures creation tutorial by Sathish Koththolla

 

Tutorial - Creating realtime hair textures for games Method 1 by

Sathish Koththolla

In this tutorial you will learn how to create 3D realtime hair for games. I will be showing the detailed textures creation process. Hope you will enjoy it.

When building the hair asset it’s important to focus on the overall form and silhouette and how the form is broken up giving the hair it’s depth and natural look. It’s extremely important to gather as much real-life reference early on and study the style of hair you are trying to achieve, carefully observing how the hair is broken up, clumping, the flow of the hair, and understanding how it naturally wants to fall into place. Good high-quality reference and observation of the areas where you’ll be able to see the roots, along the hairline are also extremely important. Everything has to be considered and planned out when it comes to how you create your textures and construct the layers of hair. The more time you spend gathering good reference material and understanding the construction of the hair in real life, the easier it’s going to be when it comes time to actually constructing the hair asset out of hair cards for the character.