How to Make DOPE CG HAIR | XGen Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
02:23 XGen Basics
02:56 Setting a Project
04:57 Creating a Description
07:59 Guides
10:25 Hairs
12:18 Modifiers
13:58 Hair Resolution
15:24 Density Mask
18:12 Creating the Brows
25:15 The Lashes
31:06 Tweaks and Iteration
32:51 Skillshare
34:24 The Hair
36:16 Region Map
37:52 Clumping Technique
39:16 Noise Technique
41:06 Cut Modifier
43:13 Painting the Hair Mask
45:00 Outro
Dude, this is one of the best guides I've ever seen. You cover it thoroughly, but as simply as possible. So freaking good! Thank you.
Agreed
The reason the hair "goes away" sometimes, is because, in the Preview/Output tab in the Xgen menu, the option "Only primitives in view" is turned on meaning it will only draw section of the hair where the roots are visible in the viewport. Its a performance thing but on modern computers you can usually turn this off with no problems.
About the Arnold hair shader not showing in the viewport: you can plug it into the surface slot in the Arnold tab of the physical hair's shading group and then you'll get the arnold one in the render and the physical hair one in the viewport and you don't have to switch back and forth anymore :D
You're an absolute legend, its been a struggle trying to do solid hair with no delays. I've managed to finesse it well but now imma officially start incorporating this in my workflow
dope, glad to hear it
This looks super simple and incredibly hard at the same time. But it was really awesome! It's incredible we have access to these industry grade programs
Man!! Thank you for taking the time to put together such a comprehensive tutorial! Much Appreciated! You've gained one new subscriber! I'm learning so much from every minute of your tutorial. You tutorial is very concise with no "ummm...ahhhh..." pauses. Audio is crisp and video is sharp. Appreciate the quality of your tutorial.
Thank you! I hope it helps.
Plenty of umms and uuhhs, I just edit them out ;)
J, man, really thanking you from my heart, I always felt XGEN pretty hard, but your simple style of teaching just taught me everything about XGEN I wanted to know, didn't find any tutorial this easy, Thank you once again
Happy to hear that. Good luck with it and have fun
another solid tut J, helped me understand Xgen a bit better, with more control
Awesome tutorial! It was clear, concise, and very well taught. Thank you very much for creating this!
🙏 I’m glad you liked it
I've been doing grooms since august and this is the nr.1 video I keep coming back to! Thank you so much! Absolute master tutorial! Only love bro!
Love to hear that! Glad you’re finding it helpful. Make some dope hair
Thank you for putting this tutorial series together! Appreciate your calming voice and knowledge :)
You got it
Love it - Amazing tutorial as always!
this has motivated me to do the most feared thing in maya or as a cg artist . Thanks J for the indepth tutorial.
You got this
Thank you very much for your various videos (Student who tries to specialize in Cfx here) Your pedagogy is perfect!
You're a good teacher J. clear and to the point:)
I appreciate that. Thanks for checking out the video :)
Thats such good timing, im right now working in my character hair i'm struguling for it to feel "alive"
Great video as usual!
One tip I can add to using xGen is for your aiStandardHair shader, in the shading group for that material you can middle mouse drag the hairPhysicalShader into "Surface material" and add the aiStandardHair material into "Surface Shader" which is under Arnold. Then when you render it uses the aiStandardHair and in the viewport is has the hairPhysicalShader. It works as well using this method to have a Arnold material for surfaces and then in the viewport a lambert material if you need to paint masks and such since Xgen doesn't allow you to paint maps onto objects with arnold shader on it.
Awesome thank you
Hey J, this video is gold. Thanks a lot to share your process with us.
For sure. I hope it helps
Nice one. I didn't know about our nested folders not being able to have spaces. That explains why my xgen sometimes break I hope haha
Pure gold !!. Great teaching ...
I keep coming back to this for the details. Stunning tutorial, you're the best.
Thank you. I hope it helps
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!
Very helpful J Hill. So simply explained all the basic info. Easy to understand. Thank you so much!
Hello, Jason,
in this video, you have mentioned there will be more intermediate courses in your patron. But, I did not find it yet. Can you please provide more information about it?
Solid as always!
Dear, thank you for your hard work and your creativity, your work is amazing, very inspiring!
Like that second hairstyle you showed at the end a lot. Good stuff.
Thanks, glad you liked it
This video has all the basics 🙏🏻
Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot.
Thanks for this. Always found the original Xgen complicated:)
Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much :D
Glad to hear it
You are the reason I jumped back to 3d modeling. Thank you so much brother.
🙏 happy to hear that. Keep it up and make some dope stuff
i really needed this , thanks so much !
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent content and explanation 👌🏻
Thank you so much for this great tutorial!
You got it. I hope it helps!
thank you so much!
tbh, one of the best cg hair i ve seen
another great tutorial and just what i needed for my current project
Thank you. Glad you found it useful
I've been watching binge watching all of your tutorials and all I can say is thank you so much for your tutorials, I've watched your tutorials from zbrush skin textures to substancepainter. As someone who is new to both maya and zbrush (mainly because I use blender only) your tutorials are so easy to understand and its a great help! One question tho, I've been having a hard time with the hair clipping through the ears do i just add more guides? Anywho thank you so much for the tutorials it really is a big help for someone like me who wants to learn more.
A few months ago I made a comment bashing XGen due to it crashing/being unusable. Turns out, there was a way to solve my issue, I just had to do a TON of research. If anyone runs into the problem I did where interactive groom cant be used, its possible that your Maya.env file has OpenGL turned off. If you open that file up with notepad, and delete that line, interactive groom will work like a charm. Another issue I had, was the hair going through my mesh. Turns out in the brush setting of interactive groom, you can turn on collision. I really hope someone who is running into the issues I ran into reads my comment before pulling their hair out like I did. GL everyone.
Your tutos are amazing!
Thank you 🙏
One word it's a 💎 gem
Awesome Video Thanks!
Could u make a tutorial about curly\afro hair that would be amazing!! Thank you so much for all the tutorials
This is amazing. Thanks a lot for all the explanation.
For sure. I hope it helps
Wow! Thank you very much!!!
Thanks for this great tutorial. It helped me a lot to understand xgen. :D
Happy to hear that
Thank you! Awesome and clean tutorial. :)
🙏
I finally have MAYA!! So I'm literally binging your videos on creating hair in maya. Probably the only reason why I got it.
This is GOLD, thank you so much
I hope it helps!
Great stuff man. Thanks a lot!
You got it. Hope it helps
Tnx for tut. Trying with friends from Voicely to repeat. Hope it goes well :3
Dude, seriously, thanks for this. I have been pulling MY hair out for months just trying to figure out Xgen. Just working with clumping alone made me want to scream and quit altogether. Could you make a tutorial on saving your xgen hair as a preset for use with other models?
Always awesome, thank you
Thank you. Hope it helps
You're the KING! Thank you very much!
Ty I hope it helps!
DAYYYUUUMMM here we gooo!! Thank you J
Enjoy!
Great tutorial. It actually MADE SENSE.
Happy to hear that! Glhf
very nice! simple and keep it up man!
Thanks. Will do
awseooome ! thank you so much for this i learned alot !
Man. I've already watched this video 3 times and I'm still getting things out of it!
love to hear that. Glad you're finding it useful
excellent stuff. Thanks
Great teacher, Thank you so much for this! Would be great to see a tutorial about creating hair for videogames.
Greetings from Colombia!
Thanks. Making Game Hair sucks though
Thank you Sir to make such a great tutorial about XGen, WE appreciate it a lot!
You got it
You are amazing! Thank you)
I m waiting for next part.... Thank you❤
i freakin love you bro just thank you .
such a great tutorial thank you so much J :)
you got it
thank you so much
Amazing tutorial thanks for help J
Np I hope it helps
these videos, the information in them is worth 1000 of $USD. Thank you J. You are an excellent teacher. New sub.
🙏
About to hammer this whole class, hoping it all goes smooth in Windows 11!
Great explanation!
Amazing tutorial!!
🙏
thanks dude!
Np! I hope it helps
great video ! seriously
Very informative really helped me a lot not everyone is able to teach well 👍👍👍
Thank you, I'm glad it helped!
This is AMAZING!
Glad you think so!
Hey J!
To solve your problem with the groom sometimes not showing, go to the Preview/Output tab in the Description and uncheck "Only primitives in the view." You gotta do it for every new Description, but it will make it so previews always do ALL the hair.
Great and relevant stuff as usual.
Thank you!
2 years later this tutorial still amazing
you SIR are GOATED imo :D
Hi, Thanks For Your PERFECT TUTORIAL! would you mind making a video about how to get rid of some unwanted hair and how to perfctly avoid hair entering model?
You’re a gem!!
No YOU!
So fucking good man. Never reallylooked into Xgen before as I'm a Blender user but can really see the control you have here. very enticing...
It is the best. If blender had something like this it would be god tier
I love it your work J, you are Awsome
Thank you 🙏
@@artofjhill can you make video about blend shapes in maya
You are the best, thanks a lot man
for sure, hope it helps
thankyou，J!
You got it! I hope it helps
THANKS A LOT GREAT VID
I have thought about using Xgen again,
But the crashing was a nightmare during school and it literally kept me from finishing a project.
Since then I have changed over to Ornatrix and it works virtually the same way.
Basically what I'm saying is if you can sculpt hair guides it doesn't matter if you use Xgen, Ornatrix, Yeti, whatever
You are unique in teaching
Cool
Thanks for this. =) top notch.
I hope it helps
Amezing tutorials, new follower hehe
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for the class. Please, talk about hair cards. ;) How you take this and put into Marmoset.
Love it
even as a blender user it's very interesting :) thx
(ps: i'm really fan , your art is my wallpaper everyday)
Thank you! 🙏
hi J, awesome video as usual, I have not finished yet, I'm around @14:00 and noticed that problem with the hair disappearing when you are too close. I dunno if you'll eventually aknowledge that later in the video but if you go into the PREVIEW/OUTPUT tab, under PREVIEW you'll find an option flag with something like "only primitives in the view". Uncheck it and xgen hairs will always be dislpayed. It's an optimization to hide the hair not framed by camera at that moment
great tip thank you
04:51 It's actually Pascal Case Camel Case only has Caps in the middle, like the humps of a Camel.
Thank you for that
You're good...DAMN
thank you 🙏
hank you very much for sharing. I am a big fan
You are very welcome
Thanks !! :D
Np I hope it helps
boy you are the BEST
no, YOU
no joke DOPE tutorial
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