@@FlippedNormals Please help, hair not visible in viewport 2.0, the guides are visible...Followed everything you said but the hair preview is simply not working...something to do with the shader? I didn't do anything with the shaders.
@@NijanNj Lots of values in the settings depend whether one Maya unit corresponds to one centimeter or one meter (or any other length). I usually construct scenes assuming centimeter. That is most important for simulations bc those usually assume one meter.
Also, guys make sure you're not renaming your object the Xgen is applied to after you applied Xgen! Do it before applying and never ever rename it again. Otherwise, it will not render because it will lose the connection/path between the object and Xgen. Thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for breaking this up into a cohesive tutorial. It's such a mess to get into xGen with all the different tools and techniques, I always find your videos super useful so keep the awesome work going
OMG!! This video was sent by the gods!! From all UA-cam I wouldn´t ask anyone else but you to see a tutorial of XGen (or anything 3D related honestly). THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
First i would like to say every tutorial i have watched of FlippedNormals is always very in depth. That out of the way, 5 seconds into this I had a headache, 1 minute into it a migrain. By 2 minutes i could see this tool would be more of a hassle to use then simply manually doing all the work by hand.
i told Henning last week that another head sculpt of his for flippednormals = kinda boring. I asked him to do something else other than sculpting, but i didnt see that he had already done this super wonderful xgen intro. I am moving out of Modo, Henning! Modo = for basic modeling tools and UV peeling only for me now. Blender = had a hard time with user interface. So i am back to Maya and your tutorials are the most wonderful tuts i have found so far. You really compete head to head with the big boys like CGMA , Gnomon , FXPHD... wish list = vray next tutorial and maybe redshift. also phoenix FD.
Pls do a tutorial on crowd animation..golem or miarmy ....u are doing an awesome job... dnt mind about negative commands here.. I am multimedia specialist and a instructor for decades long..you are super instructor I have ever seen in my life.. crystal clear deep explanation.. keep it up
Not sure if anyone has had any issues, but just a couple things I ran into. Firstly, maya didn't like painting with an object that has an Arnold standard material on it. I had to apply a regular blinn for the density map painting to work. Second, it would not render the hair if I renamed the geo to something different than what it was called when the description was created. Make sure the geo that the hair is applied to name stays the same. Hope this helps anyone that runs into any quirky problems.
Hey! I've had an issue where the hair preview will not show in the viewport. It shows up in the render, but haven't been able to figure out why I cannot see it.
Very nice video. I have a problem creating hair it's growing everywhere and getting through the mesh, it's not following spline. Please advise me, thank you
It's cool, but when I save and reopen the guides are no longer in the viewport, just in the outliner, but can't select them. Is there a way to fix it? Please help me
Hi Henning !! Thanks for the Video. One small thing, while painting the maps using the 3D paint tool, it is not required to 'Save textures' on both, in the Tool settings and in the Xgen Primitives tabs. Hitting the 'save' icon on the Xgen Primitives tab is enough and the maps work 100% correctly. Just to clarify:) Thanks!!
Thanks for the comment! Technically you dont have to save both places: When you his save in the XGen tab, this converts the paint data to ptex. The reason we save both places in the tutorial is so that when you open the scene again, you can keep painting on your maps as it actually saves the texture map.
@@FlippedNormals Hi Henning!! Thank you for the reply. No Henning, it is not like that, Saving on the Xgen Primitives tab is enough as I have mentioned earlier. Your maps will be saved in both the formats, .ptex and in Maya IFF.. You can find the .ptex maps in 'XGen' folder of your project directory and .IFF file in your 'sourceimages' folder of your project directory. When you hit that save icon, you can notice that in the script editor as well as when you open your hypershade, under 'Textures' tab, you can see a file node created as well. All we have to do, as you mentioned in the video, when we open the file, we need to 'set project' without fail and thats it. So :) saving once, on the Xgen Primitives tab is enough :) Thanks
Thank you so much for giving such information about Xgen but can you explain how to make any character hair properly and how to render in marmoset tool bag
I greatly despise Xgen because of the naming conventions. I tried it for like a year and couldn't get it.. it's extremely frustrating to use, I made the switch to ornatrix and I love it, as it works correctly. I havent tried yeti yet but I think I'll give that a go sometime. Edit: also idk if this will help people but I found it extremely useful to create curves first then apply the hair ontop of them with Xgen, Ornatrix or Yeti. That way you dont have to worry about sculpting the hair position. Because it should follow the position of the curves/Guides
Does anyone knows why lesser hair are generated with the same density amount? I tried to copy the placement of guides in 7:19 & 12:57 with the same amount of density, but I get lesser hair generated than the video. Someone states that the density depends on the scene scale and object scale, but my scene scale was set to centimeter and I am also using the default sphere just like in the video. Deleting preferences does not work, and the preview percentage is 100%. Highly appreciate if someone can help on this :D
That's an awsome tutorial! Leaned a lot. I am wondering, if I made a hair with this method, there seems to be too much exposure of skin (like in the middle). How do you deal with that?
Great tutorial! But if you say xGen is "buggy", how about Ornatrix, which is using xGen, just giving a better UI and grooming history (afaik)? I heard it makes it easier, but I'm only beginner, so it would be really great to hear your opinion about this in comparison. Thx
hi,i need you help.i create guide on the scalpe and when i generate the vizualization from hair the xgen is creating hair inside the mesh ,the same ay when i create the spline to convert to guide the xgen is creating hair inside the mesh,i am face this big problem all time i use xgen.hy this is happening?when i create guide one by one happen the same problem and the hair scale automatically.
I have a hard time getting the interpolation of the hair to follow my guides to how I want it to be, say, if I want to sculpt a long hairstyle with a ponytail. I've seen examples where people are able to almost have the hair glued to the shape of their guides, but I cannot for the life of me figure it out.
Is it possible to animate this one either adding key frames or with physics , may be to make a scene were the character are running then the movement and wind move the hair ?
Hello! OliMSZ my name and there is a problem with Autodesk Maya 2022, specifically the XGen Plug-In. The problem is that XGen doesn't work. The scripteditor prints that a procedure, xgmAddExpressions, is missing from the xgCreateDescription.py file. The same procedure is missing in the xgDescriptionEditor.py file ... although it's interestingly included because I checked it in both files using Total Commander. although the letter s was forgotten in xgCreateDescription, I corrected it, but to no avail. It is present in both py files but does not work. Something that is perhaps more important. the scripteditor first prints the specific error message that: Error line 1: Cannot find procedure "xgmLockTransform". // I write this and then I send the detailed error message. // Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. // // Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. // // Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. // # XGen: Use the Add/Move Guides Tool to add guides to the surface (⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\dialogs\xgCreateDescription.py:89) // Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExressions”. // // Error: RuntimeError: file ⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\xgmDescriptionEditor.py line 1529: Error occurred during execution of MEL script line 1: line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExpressions”. // After I correct the xgmAddExpression to xgmAddExpressions in xgCreateDescription.py, same error came whitout the first errot line: // Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. // // Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. // # XGen: Use the Add/Move Guides Tool to add guides to the surface (⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\dialogs\xgCreateDescription.py:89) // Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExressions”. // // Error: RuntimeError: file ⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\xgmDescriptionEditor.py line 1529: Error occurred during execution of MEL script line 1: line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExpressions”. // Thats it unfortunatly. Could you help me to fix this bug, thank you in advance. Hello.
As soon as I selected the start color to white for the density map to create the mask, 90 percent of the splines vanished and showing a script error that part of the file path doesn't exist. Can anyone tell me why this happened or what would solve this? I would very much appreciate it. :)
I have some problems with scale in maya, i set correct scale for head in c4d ( so SS works good) and exported it to maya, in maya the head is so small so its rly hard to navigate and when i want to create guides in xgen they are really big, any solution ?
If anyone knows what the problem could be, please help to solve it. When i try to add hairguides they are being placed on the mesh not in the places where my cursor is. Sometimes its close to the cursor-circle sometimes really far. I dont have slightest clue whats wrong and cant seem to find solution in google.
Great video Henning! Worth to mention is that if you’re setting the stray percentage for the description, beware of the ”delete description” button. Happened to me recently and somehow undo didn’t work. 😆
core xgen has better modifiers than Interactive Grooming, but has't that useful comb, clump, grab, etc. brushes, so I think it's really good if you can combine both of those methods of hair creation
Core has an easier method to groom guides. I convert back and forth between the 2. Core for blocking, Interactive for detail and polish. Interactive is also safer since it packs all files into the maya scene, no dependencies and less likely to break.
Very good thanks! I have no idea how youre not getting hair everywhere. Whether I have one guide or 100 hair is growing from the whole mesh. I thought Bounds might solve it, but seems not. Anyone have any ideas? I know I can use a density mask, but its currently like 'whats the point of placing guides if its just going to go everywhere?'.
11:45 ahaha! Talk about isolation xD damn.. and just after doing this, I used Ctrl+Shift+MMB to drag him away (it copied it instead of moving....) and I clicked on it. Undo only deselects. Now we all know, lol.
I know it been a while since this video was made n maya's xgen has been updated n all. But can someone tell me what to do when the "Add or move guides" doesn't really add up anythin? Also it creates hair automatically n place em on random places n I don't really know how to prevent it from doin that. So if anyone here has dealt with that issue, please give me a tip on how to get rid of this mess.
hey guys just wondering, in maya 2022 how can I get the guides to get the color of the region they are in? I saw other people doing it, but I cant figure it out, but I can tell how useful it will be :)
really cool tutorial it is very helpful to me in my university only teaches modeling and really really little basic of rigging.... I want to make fur but my professors doesn't know about that :( really really thank you :)
Hello :) I have a problem and don´t know why "No Preview Visible. The Description is set to use locations, but no locations have been created. // " Do you can help me?
I'm completely new to Maya. Following this tutorial when I get to the adding guides part, a warning comes up that I have 'no visible bound geometry' so I am unable to go to next step. What does that mean?
Thank you for this tutorial. very helpful. I am working on a female with a long hair project. I build the hair on a duplicate mesh without ear and face, it is a scalp. When a guide close to the character's body, the hair cut into her shoulder and the ear. Could you tell me how to avoid this problem? Thank you very much
"There are probably gonna be more weird error messages and weird issues in Xgen than in any other software" I feel you, so much, Xgen is a pipe's nightmare and I can't understand how it's the industry standard. How do you deal with errors like the one that's showing when you say that, where it complains the path doesn't exist when it clearly does, the project is set properly and there are no spaces or weird stuff that could be causing problems?
@@Rendou I had to start from scratch, I deleted my preferences and I made sure my project file was saved where I wanted it to be, and my XGen collection file - before starting the xgen process. That seemed to have fix the issue
im working on a big mesh and my guides are barely visible. is there a to change the length of guide by default so that whenever i make guides its visible?
Great tut, just what I needed for a refresher on xgen without it being a 1000 hr long course.
Most helpful content found on youtube about xgen till now
Keep crushing it, guys! Your content has proplled my 3D art so much. Can't thank you enough 💯
Thats awesome to hear! Thanks a lot TJ
@@FlippedNormals Please help, hair not visible in viewport 2.0, the guides are visible...Followed everything you said but the hair preview is simply not working...something to do with the shader? I didn't do anything with the shaders.
The "export patches for batch render" tip was crazy helpful! Love this friggen channel!
All tutorials of this kind should start with a clear explanation of the scale of the scene we are working with.
can you explain
@@NijanNj Lots of values in the settings depend whether one Maya unit corresponds to one centimeter or one meter (or any other length). I usually construct scenes assuming centimeter. That is most important for simulations bc those usually assume one meter.
Also, guys make sure you're not renaming your object the Xgen is applied to after you applied Xgen! Do it before applying and never ever rename it again. Otherwise, it will not render because it will lose the connection/path between the object and Xgen. Thanks for the tutorial!
Thankss i kept searching for what that error means
Thank you for breaking this up into a cohesive tutorial. It's such a mess to get into xGen with all the different tools and techniques, I always find your videos super useful so keep the awesome work going
OMG!! This video was sent by the gods!! From all UA-cam I wouldn´t ask anyone else but you to see a tutorial of XGen (or anything 3D related honestly).
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
Would love a video from you guys on taking something like this from xgen and making Hair cards out of it for games/realtime render
First i would like to say every tutorial i have watched of FlippedNormals is always very in depth. That out of the way, 5 seconds into this I had a headache, 1 minute into it a migrain. By 2 minutes i could see this tool would be more of a hassle to use then simply manually doing all the work by hand.
thank you very much for creating great tutorials, you are awesome greetings from Armenia 🇦🇲
Thanks for watching Amas! :)
Clear and not boring explanation
Thanks! We tried keeping this one really focused.
i told Henning last week that another head sculpt of his for flippednormals = kinda boring. I asked him to do something else other than sculpting, but i didnt see that he had already done this super wonderful xgen intro. I am moving out of Modo, Henning! Modo = for basic modeling tools and UV peeling only for me now. Blender = had a hard time with user interface. So i am back to Maya and your tutorials are the most wonderful tuts i have found so far. You really compete head to head with the big boys like CGMA , Gnomon , FXPHD...
wish list = vray next tutorial and maybe redshift. also phoenix FD.
Thanks A lot man, this was very Helpful, your way of explaining things is awesome much apreciated
Gays your style of teaching is outstanding, please upload a video about render passes and compositing tips
the most awesome tutorial I've seen in a while!! where'd the time go!!
Pls do a tutorial on crowd animation..golem or miarmy ....u are doing an awesome job... dnt mind about negative commands here.. I am multimedia specialist and a instructor for decades long..you are super instructor I have ever seen in my life.. crystal clear deep explanation.. keep it up
Yes! You answered my prayers. Thank you for the tutorial!
...thank you...it is better than 1000tutorial... Thank you sir❤️❤️
this is so helpful cants believe im watching it two years after🤣
Not sure if anyone has had any issues, but just a couple things I ran into.
Firstly, maya didn't like painting with an object that has an Arnold standard material on it. I had to apply a regular blinn for the density map painting to work.
Second, it would not render the hair if I renamed the geo to something different than what it was called when the description was created. Make sure the geo that the hair is applied to name stays the same.
Hope this helps anyone that runs into any quirky problems.
Omg been waiting for this for long time xD its finally here thanks so much !!
Yay! Happy to help.
Many many many thanks.
FINALLY!!!✌️✌️ Thank you so much for this!
Youre welcome! We'll have more XGen content in the future.
@@FlippedNormals cant wait for more!
It's like you knew exactly what I needed! thanks again guys!!
:D Thank you!
one of the best videos ever
Hi henning i tried xgen soooooooooooo mannnyyyyyy times but then i tried the xgen interactive grooming thnank you for your videos❤️
16:31 scale sculpt brush size
Not sure if I'm in love with you or your voice.... either way I'm in love 😍😍😍
thank you so much mate you just save lot of my time in hair work in maya.
I was waiting for this tutorial, great video!
Thank you! Hoping you like it.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Awesome like always! :)
Very nicely paced for an intro, great work!
Cheers Michael!
The best channel on youtube!! I feel like giving XGen a second chance. Any plans for a XGen course?
Thank you so much! We might
YOU ARE EPIC MY MANS
Hey! I've had an issue where the hair preview will not show in the viewport. It shows up in the render, but haven't been able to figure out why I cannot see it.
Dude’s really making the case against X-Gen
Very nice video. I have a problem creating hair it's growing everywhere and getting through the mesh, it's not following spline. Please advise me, thank you
17:15 creating density mask
What did you do at 15:35? Hide？
It's cool, but when I save and reopen the guides are no longer in the viewport, just in the outliner, but can't select them. Is there a way to fix it? Please help me
Hi Henning !! Thanks for the Video. One small thing, while painting the maps using the 3D paint tool, it is not required to 'Save textures' on both, in the Tool settings and in the Xgen Primitives tabs. Hitting the 'save' icon on the Xgen Primitives tab is enough and the maps work 100% correctly. Just to clarify:) Thanks!!
Thanks for the comment! Technically you dont have to save both places: When you his save in the XGen tab, this converts the paint data to ptex. The reason we save both places in the tutorial is so that when you open the scene again, you can keep painting on your maps as it actually saves the texture map.
@@FlippedNormals Hi Henning!! Thank you for the reply. No Henning, it is not like that, Saving on the Xgen Primitives tab is enough as I have mentioned earlier. Your maps will be saved in both the formats, .ptex and in Maya IFF.. You can find the .ptex maps in 'XGen' folder of your project directory and .IFF file in your 'sourceimages' folder of your project directory. When you hit that save icon, you can notice that in the script editor as well as when you open your hypershade, under 'Textures' tab, you can see a file node created as well. All we have to do, as you mentioned in the video, when we open the file, we need to 'set project' without fail and thats it. So :) saving once, on the Xgen Primitives tab is enough :) Thanks
Thank you so much for giving such information about Xgen but can you explain how to make any character hair properly and how to render in marmoset tool bag
I greatly despise Xgen because of the naming conventions. I tried it for like a year and couldn't get it.. it's extremely frustrating to use,
I made the switch to ornatrix and I love it, as it works correctly. I havent tried yeti yet but I think I'll give that a go sometime.
Edit: also idk if this will help people but I found it extremely useful to create curves first then apply the hair ontop of them with Xgen, Ornatrix or Yeti. That way you dont have to worry about sculpting the hair position. Because it should follow the position of the curves/Guides
I’m really excited to try this out 😍
Awesome! XGen is really powerful.
Thank you for all of these great tips ! Awesome! :)
15:34 adding more segmetns to guides
My hair always go through the mesh and No matter what I try it keeps happening can you pls help
how do you use hairs for a game? how does that work? since aaa games clearly do not use mesh hair. kinda looks like this here when using xgen.
Does anyone knows why lesser hair are generated with the same density amount? I tried to copy the placement of guides in 7:19 & 12:57 with the same amount of density, but I get lesser hair generated than the video.
Someone states that the density depends on the scene scale and object scale, but my scene scale was set to centimeter and I am also using the default sphere just like in the video. Deleting preferences does not work, and the preview percentage is 100%.
Highly appreciate if someone can help on this :D
That's an awsome tutorial! Leaned a lot.
I am wondering, if I made a hair with this method, there seems to be too much exposure of skin (like in the middle). How do you deal with that?
Great tutorial! But if you say xGen is "buggy", how about Ornatrix, which is using xGen, just giving a better UI and grooming history (afaik)? I heard it makes it easier, but I'm only beginner, so it would be really great to hear your opinion about this in comparison. Thx
hi,i need you help.i create guide on the scalpe and when i generate the vizualization from hair the xgen is creating hair inside the mesh ,the same ay when i create the spline to convert to guide the xgen is creating hair inside the mesh,i am face this big problem all time i use xgen.hy this is happening?when i create guide one by one happen the same problem and the hair scale automatically.
I was just looking for an xgen tutorial yesterday! Thanks so much for this tutorial!
Happy to help!
This is a pure 24 karat Gold for a beginner like me ....thanks a ton for making this.
How do I change the preset length when adding new guides?
"Save our scene, remember Xgen being xgen" I kid you not, the second he said that my project crashed >_>
I have a hard time getting the interpolation of the hair to follow my guides to how I want it to be, say, if I want to sculpt a long hairstyle with a ponytail. I've seen examples where people are able to almost have the hair glued to the shape of their guides, but I cannot for the life of me figure it out.
You know all these hair/foliage plugins all do single hair meshes but I have yet to see an actual polygon plane hair plugin for video game developing.
Omg that will be legendary
:D Thanks
Is it possible to animate this one either adding key frames or with physics , may be to make a scene were the character are running then the movement and wind move the hair ?
Hello! OliMSZ my name and there is a problem with Autodesk Maya 2022, specifically the XGen Plug-In. The problem is that XGen doesn't work. The scripteditor prints that a procedure, xgmAddExpressions, is missing from the xgCreateDescription.py file. The same procedure is missing in the xgDescriptionEditor.py file ... although it's interestingly included because I checked it in both files using Total Commander. although the letter s was forgotten in xgCreateDescription, I corrected it, but to no avail. It is present in both py files but does not work. Something that is perhaps more important. the scripteditor first prints the specific error message that: Error line 1: Cannot find procedure "xgmLockTransform". //
I write this and then I send the detailed error message.
// Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. //
// Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. //
// Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. //
# XGen: Use the Add/Move Guides Tool to add guides to the surface (⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\dialogs\xgCreateDescription.py:89)
// Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExressions”. //
// Error: RuntimeError: file ⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\xgmDescriptionEditor.py line 1529: Error occurred during execution of MEL script line 1: line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExpressions”. //
After I correct the xgmAddExpression to xgmAddExpressions in xgCreateDescription.py, same error came whitout the first errot line:
// Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. //
// Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmLockTransform”. //
# XGen: Use the Add/Move Guides Tool to add guides to the surface (⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\dialogs\xgCreateDescription.py:89)
// Error line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExressions”. //
// Error: RuntimeError: file ⌨️:\⌨️\Autodesk Maya 2022\Maya2022\plug-ins\xgen\scripts\xgenm\ui\xgmDescriptionEditor.py line 1529: Error occurred during execution of MEL script line 1: line 1: Cannot find procedure “xgmAddExpressions”. //
Thats it unfortunatly. Could you help me to fix this bug, thank you in advance. Hello.
As soon as I selected the start color to white for the density map to create the mask, 90 percent of the splines vanished and showing a script error that part of the file path doesn't exist. Can anyone tell me why this happened or what would solve this? I would very much appreciate it. :)
I have some problems with scale in maya, i set correct scale for head in c4d ( so SS works good) and exported it to maya, in maya the head is so small so its rly hard to navigate and when i want to create guides in xgen they are really big, any solution ?
If anyone knows what the problem could be, please help to solve it. When i try to add hairguides they are being placed on the mesh not in the places where my cursor is. Sometimes its close to the cursor-circle sometimes really far. I dont have slightest clue whats wrong and cant seem to find solution in google.
Allright, that was so cool and hell yeah
Hi i'd like to know how to reduce the thickness of the guides in the viewport, if i need some thin guides in little area space. Thank you.
Thank you so much, this is extremely helpful!
Happy to help!
i recently made eyelashes... i didnt update or do anything... when i opened my file all hair was gone
how do i avoid this
Great video Henning! Worth to mention is that if you’re setting the stray percentage for the description, beware of the ”delete description” button. Happened to me recently and somehow undo didn’t work. 😆
F
Is there need to add more layers of clumps if we can manage in one layer itself? and if no then why?
Hey, so, why use the traditional xgen instead of the interactive groom? Is there disadvatage and advantages with each?
core xgen has better modifiers than Interactive Grooming, but has't that useful comb, clump, grab, etc. brushes, so I think it's really good if you can combine both of those methods of hair creation
Core has an easier method to groom guides. I convert back and forth between the 2. Core for blocking, Interactive for detail and polish. Interactive is also safer since it packs all files into the maya scene, no dependencies and less likely to break.
the preview tool isnt working for me, doe anyone have any clue as to why?
17:30 density maps
Very good thanks!
I have no idea how youre not getting hair everywhere. Whether I have one guide or 100 hair is growing from the whole mesh. I thought Bounds might solve it, but seems not.
Anyone have any ideas?
I know I can use a density mask, but its currently like 'whats the point of placing guides if its just going to go everywhere?'.
And what do think...the fibermesh in zbrush is better or xgen is better.
11:45 ahaha! Talk about isolation xD
damn.. and just after doing this, I used Ctrl+Shift+MMB to drag him away (it copied it instead of moving....) and I clicked on it. Undo only deselects. Now we all know, lol.
Finally!!!!!!😁
🙏
I love this tutorial.
it's possible to export xgen hair to use in 3ds max? thanks
34:15 rendering
I know it been a while since this video was made n maya's xgen has been updated n all. But can someone tell me what to do when the "Add or move guides" doesn't really add up anythin? Also it creates hair automatically n place em on random places n I don't really know how to prevent it from doin that. So if anyone here has dealt with that issue, please give me a tip on how to get rid of this mess.
hey guys just wondering, in maya 2022 how can I get the guides to get the color of the region they are in? I saw other people doing it, but I cant figure it out, but I can tell how useful it will be :)
how can I set default lenght of created guid just like in interactive grroming
really cool tutorial it is very helpful to me in my university only teaches modeling and really really little basic of rigging.... I want to make fur but my professors doesn't know about that :( really really thank you :)
This is a great tutorial. Thank you!
Do you guys like this method over the interactive sculpting option?
How to I change the colour of the hair?
Hello :) I have a problem and don´t know why
"No Preview Visible. The Description is set to use locations, but no locations have been created. //
"
Do you can help me?
amazing sir i need help will you please tell me why my hair not getting render. i am using arnold render too
Can I just stick with zBrush fibermesh for now or am I losing much? I've been thinking about xgen for a very long time but got used to zBrush.
I'm completely new to Maya. Following this tutorial when I get to the adding guides part, a warning comes up that I have 'no visible bound geometry' so I am unable to go to next step. What does that mean?
Thank you for this tutorial. very helpful. I am working on a female with a long hair project. I build the hair on a duplicate mesh without ear and face, it is a scalp. When a guide close to the character's body, the hair cut into her shoulder and the ear. Could you tell me how to avoid this problem? Thank you very much
sorry! i have a problem that i can't select the single direction of the hair by dragging select
it was so useful.
thanks
Is there a method to export curves generated with x-gen for use elsewhere?
Yes - you can convert the xgen groom to curves
forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-dynamics/xgen-interactive-export-guide-curves/td-p/7238159
you guys are so great!
"There are probably gonna be more weird error messages and weird issues in Xgen than in any other software" I feel you, so much, Xgen is a pipe's nightmare and I can't understand how it's the industry standard. How do you deal with errors like the one that's showing when you say that, where it complains the path doesn't exist when it clearly does, the project is set properly and there are no spaces or weird stuff that could be causing problems?
I'm having the SAME exact problem now with XGEN. Set project, but it refuses to save my .iff 3d paint file!!
@@NinaMariePhoto did you ever find a solutio
@@Rendou I had to start from scratch, I deleted my preferences and I made sure my project file was saved where I wanted it to be, and my XGen collection file - before starting the xgen process. That seemed to have fix the issue
@@NinaMariePhoto alright thanks!
im working on a big mesh and my guides are barely visible. is there a to change the length of guide by default so that whenever i make guides its visible?
Hello, thanks for the tutorial. Is there a way to control the exact spot of each strand of hair?