This is sort of zbrush related. Can anyone tell me what is the best way to go about blending the hair roots in to the scalp texture? Im using shave and a haircut by the way.Thank you.
1st bit, Shave and a haircut is a 3dsmax plugin (also now just called hair & fur as its now native to max 7/8 and no longer an external plugin.
2nd bit : Zbrush has nothing to do with your hair addition in 3dsmax. The Fiber texture/material will not translate to anything to do with 3dsmax or the hair/fur renders.
however, you can “blend” the root color to match that of your scalp material by loading an unshaded render of your model into photoshop, and using the picker tool to grab the RGB value of the location of your hair root(s) you wish to match, and then assign the root color /material in max for that location to match the RGB value you picked off of the scalp.
this should allow your roots to better blend.
Although I must say in real life, peoples hair doesnt tend to be the same color as our scalps… so why would you wish to do this?
If your finding the hair doesnt look right in 3dsmax, changing root thickness and the amount of hairs being rendered w/ specific lighting usually helps to better match the hair to the model.
Heres what im going for… How do you get the roots bunched and faded like that?
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what i would do is create Spline hair guides to get a more accurate shape of hair strands, maybe 2 or 3 various spline guides at the front, and as little as 2 spline guides for the rest of the hair ,
then use the haircut editor and “clump roots”
change root color like i suggested, to give a transparent look i find its better to lower the hair thickness but increase the hair number,
you may end up wanting to apply 2 different face selection hair modifiers and setup some for the areas the roots are visible, and then another for area where they arent.
Thanks for that advice… Also can anyone tell me how to get hair shadowing like this on Hair and Fur? This is off the the 3d max demo video.
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